Trump will sign his Executive Order eliminating the Clean Power Plan rule today. To add insult to injury, Trump will sign this suicidal order at the Environmental Protection Agency. This is an agency that has been threatened with a proposal that promises the harshest funding and staffing cuts in the agency’s history.
This is worse than the “business as usual” approach that was prevalent before President Obama’s climate change policies, rules and the Paris Climate Agreement which are providing a glimpse of hope that we can transition to a worldwide green economy, if we throw everything we have at the problem. After today the government, our corporate overlords and a swath of the population that wants to ignore the “bad news” of global warming and take no responsibility in this planetary climate emergency that we find ourselves in, than our ability to solve the problem in time to mitigate it’s most deadly consequences.
There is a sign of hope. The American people who do believe in human caused climate change can change the world if we resist. We need to shut down Trump’s budget plan. Take to the streets and demand change now.
Gallup released a poll showing that 50% of Americans are very concerned about global warming.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- With a record number of Americans sounding the alarm on global warming, the share of the U.S. population that Gallup categorizes as "Concerned Believers" on climate change has consequently reached a new high of 50%. This is up slightly from 47% in 2016 but is well above the 37% recorded only two years ago.
While the half of Americans classified as Concerned Believers take global warming very seriously, the other half are split between what Gallup calls "Cool Skeptics" and the "Mixed Middle." The percentages of Americans falling into these last two groups have declined in recent years as the ranks of Concerned Believers have swelled.
Once the largest category of Americans on global warming, the Mixed Middle has ratcheted down from a recent high of 45% in 2012 and now ranks second, at 31%. Cool Skeptics have always been the smallest global warming segment, but at 19%, their numbers are diminished from 26% in 2015 and the high point of 28% in 2010.
These groupings stem from an update of a statistical cluster analysis of its global warming questions that Gallup first reported in 2014. The analysis is based on four questions that measure Americans' beliefs and concerns about climate change, and that Gallup has now asked together 10 times since 2001. The latest results are from the March 1-5, 2017, Environment poll.
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Scientists will march on April 22, 2017.
The Peoples Climate March will be on April 29th, 2017.
Both of the above events will be held in Washington DC. For local action, contact Indivisible and find a protest and march near you.