The Soon-To-Be-Overturned Clean Power Act

Those living outside the U.S. may be a bit flummoxed by America’s posture on climate change mitigation, and, in particular, overturning one of the previous administration’s signature achievements, the Clean Power Act that would shutter the dirtiest of our coal-fired power plants and prohibit the construction of new ones.

I hope you’ll take a few minutes out of your day and check out this article from today’s New York Times, discussing this dramatic change of position on coal, which is 100% certain to increase the number of cases of cancer and deaths from ingestion of heavy metals. 

Opinion: Deliberately destroying the planet and the health of everyone and everything on it is evil.  If you challenge the use of the word “evil” here, it’s hard to know what you reserve it for.

There is one amusing aspect of this, however.  From the article:  The message they are sending to the rest of the world is that they don’t believe climate change is serious. It’s shocking to see such a degree of ignorance from the United States,” said Mario J. Molina (pictured), a Nobel Prize-winning scientist from Mexico who advises nations on climate change policy.

LOL.  If you’re shocked to see ignorance emanating from the U.S., you haven’t been paying attention.