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Intuitively survival requires us to protect the planet – clean air, clean water, not breathing a lot of Particulate Matter (PM). PM2.5 etc. Why are we hearing from a member of the EPA transition team (formerly a shill for tobacco and oil) that air pollution isn’t bad for your health? |
Along with the Kochish payola that pours into the political arena, there is something else: imputing divine guidance from a literal interpretation of bible sentences taken out of context .
For example: Genesis 2:15 “And the Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and to keep it.” The EPA Administrator pushes back about taking responsibility for activity that affects the earth in the following poetic rationale:
“It’s like having a beautiful apple orchard that could feed the world, but the environmentalists put up a fence around the apple orchard and say do not touch the apple orchard because it may spoil the apple orchard. Instead of, what, cultivating and using the apple orchard and exporting that fruit to feed the world. We as a country feed the world. We as a country power the world.”
Either the money from the extraction industry is too enticing or there is sincere comfort that the earth’s divine design will heal the problems created by the human species that is part of that design – or are we only concerned about our descendants that we will live to know and don’t care about our great, great grandchildren?
Having a debate about the causes of climate change, as proposed by the EPA Administrator, is weird. Science is not something to debate.
If we are going to have a debate why not: how to respond to the warming planet, famine and mass migrations, severe weather, dying
oceans and desertification?