Drilling to our Doom

As stated in one of my previous posts “Not a Hoax”, I explained my concerns for the environment and all those who dwell within it with the recent election of Trump. It has only been about 100 days since he became the new president, and Trump has done nothing in favor of the planet during this time.

After filling his cabinet full of global warming non believers, we are about to see our Earth drilled into shambles. Trump recently declared “the war on coal” has ended, so he went right ahead and removed restrictions on fossil fuel productions. These politicians cannot see past the money that they find within these awful productions! With restrictions being removed faster than I can blink, coal mining and oil drilling in every place imaginable will not only make our air unclean and contribute to all the catastrophic effects of global warming. It will make solar and wind power less desirable and possibly more expensive. In addition, his latest executive order is to shrink or get rid of national monuments (a.k.a. nature reserves) to open up more space for drilling. The steps that Trump is taking to make money will eventually make our planet unlivable, and this will happen faster than you may think. The Paris Agreement was put in place to keep the planet’s temperature from rising over 2.7 degrees fahrenheit, but with Trump showing interest in pulling the United States from that agreement shows how selfish and money driven this man really is. It is undeniable how quickly the planet’s temperature is rising currently, and the addition of Trumps orders will speed up our planet’s inevitable doom. If this doesn’t sound bad enough, poor Obama has to watch all his hard work disappear. Trump signed an executive order on April 28th to review offshore oil and gas drilling, something Obama worked so hard to put in place in December of 2016.
If the Republican party is so family oriented then why don’t they stop for a second to think about what kind of world their children and grandchildren will be living in? Money is all that matters to Trump, and that is being made clearer every day.

Quit Sugar Coating it

My colleague made some very valid points in her article “The Government is Poisoning Us”. The government has continued to keep things from the public about what is going into the food that is grown-- and processed. It truly is unfortunate that we must face the decision of either spending our paychecks on overpriced fruits and veggies or consume unnatural pesticides and like you said, chlorpyrifos. However, I must add that the addition of chlorpyrifos to our produce is only scratching the surface of what we know and don’t know about our food. Now, I am not the type of herbivore to introduce myself and then tell people I cannot be their friend unless they stop eating meat. Nevertheless, since the topic of the government hiding the truth from us has come up I must put in my thoughts. This topic has made me change how I view the government because after all, they are here to better the public. Remarkably, the government has been hiding the true costs of the meat and dairy industry, and that will result in extreme consequences. Pardon my French, but it is utter bullshit that these industries are getting away with what they are. Very few speak out about it, and if they do odds are they are going to be ignored.

When you think about what is important to our country one major thing comes to my mind-- money. Similar to how farmers profits would decrease if they cut out the unnatural chemicals currently used, the country would lose a big chunk of their profits if the truth were to creep out. The meat and dairy industries bring in whopping loads of money, therefore, it is frowned upon when someone speaks out against it. I’m not just talking about the antibiotics that are actually widely discussed between nutrition nuts like me, I’m talking about how much water and land is needed to meet the public’s demand for these products. In addition to this, we have been fooled into thinking meat and dairy are necessary for our well being, but this is far from true.

While we think about challenging the government on telling us what is going into our produce, let us also challenge them to open up about these industries. I won’t go into too much detail, but all I can hope for is that the people that read this article will try to escape their filter bubbles and receive real information and understand the very real soon-to-be doomed planet we live on.