Most of the damage that has been caused by
the Trump administration over these last four
years is reversible. Some of it takes a little
bit more time than others, but most of it
can be undone in the term of a president that
follows him assuming he loses in November.
But there is one area where Donald Trump has
caused so much damage that it can not be undone
by just the next administration. And that
is with the environment. We have seen this
man come in and dismantle every single rule
and regulation that Barack Obama and his administration
had put in place that made our air a little
bit cleaner, our water, a little bit clearer
and our environment just a little bit better.
And this past Monday, Donald Trump took it
to a new extreme. In addition to announcing
last week that he was preparing to open up
parts of the Arctic to oil drilling on Monday,
his administration through the national park
service released a new set of rules that would
Spotlight expedite,
Right? The permitting process for oil and
gas drillers in America's national forests,
not national parks, national forests. So these
areas of Woodlands that have been protected
and preserved, basically left untouched. Other
than people casually strolling through. For
hundreds of years,
He says the hell with it.
Let's make it. So these oil companies can
get in there faster. They can get their permits,
they can start drilling. They can get that
delicious, sweet, crude oil or natural gas
or whatever it is underneath these forests.
They can get it out and get it into our country.
It's the same president who not that long
ago, by the way, told us that we had so much,
we have so much oil and gas. You know, we
have to lift the export bans. We've got to
get this stuff shipped out overseas. Cause
we have more than we could use. He told us,
but now he wants to sacrifice even more parts
of the environment, parts of the environment
that have remained untouched for hundreds
of years
So that we can exploit them.
I know that we can continue to feed our addiction
to fossil fuels and in his case, his addiction
to money because he wants to run the government
like a business. If he sees anything that
the government owns, that he thinks he can
make a dollar off of, he is going to do everything
he can to make the dollar without ever considering
the expenses that we incur as a result of
it. And to be honest, that seems to be the
problem with American capitalism to begin
with. Right? We have seen that with far too
many of our corporations here. Nobody ever
looks more than three years down the road
anymore. In fact, that actually happens to
be the average tenure of a CEO here in the
United States is three years, 40 years. The
average tenure of a CEO is about 18 years.
So they had to think long term.
They had to look further down the road, but
not today. And certainly not for the president
of the United States. He doesn't have to look
down the road. Donald Trump is no longer going
to be on this planet when the worst effects
of climate change really start showing themselves.
And we're already seeing quite a few of them
now. And all the experts tell us that within
10 years, it's only going to get so much worse.
And it's likely just simply based on actuarial
tables to Trump, isn't going to be here anymore.
And because of his wealth, he really never
be in a position where he has to deal with
that kind of stuff. The rest of us will drilling
in these national forests is only going to
expedite that. And that's why I say this is
one of the things, his, uh, entire assault
on the environment. This is one of those areas
that can not just be undone by the next president,
because when you release these toxins, when
you burn more fossil fuels, when you continue
to push those out in the atmosphere, that's
not going to be undone by simply reducing
the amount by the next guy. That stuff builds
up. And it takes a very, very long time for
it to go away, but we can do it. We have the
technology, we have the resources, we just
don't have the courage to finally kick our
fossil fuel addiction for good.
