2018 Nov 30, Alan Gould to President Donald Trump: Your administration's agencies released the Fourth National Climate Assessment, saying climate change is to a significant degree caused by our burning of fossil fuels and will cause the suffering of millions of Americans from flooding, storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, sea level rise, drought and wildfires. I heard you, the president of the United States, say that you do not believe the Assessment prepared by 11 of your administration's agencies. That's not acceptable for broad majority of the American people. Measures that you support towards implementation of alternatives to fossil fuel energy sources are vitally needed. For example the upcoming bi-partisan bill to implement a carbon tax. Please support it! And please stop trying to subvert environmental safeguards and alternative energy initiatives even though some began under previous administrations.
[The second item below is probably a coincidence of coal miners being killed with ethnic hatred as the motive. But the first one---that's an intriguing event that could be an example of fossil fuel economic problems that could get much worse, namely protests and casualties from anger over gasoline and other energy price hikes. Then there are the problems and disputes over water which may get vastly worse as climate change effects increase, yet another fossil fuel related problem.] |
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