If the author were serious, he'd include the actions of Trump 2.0 in proper context, i.e. he's taken a wrecking ball to nearly anything related to 'conservation.' Actions speak louder than words, and actions include eliminating nearly all scientists working on endangered species, gutting protections on clean water, rolling back environmental regulations. Key actions include weakening mercury and toxic air emission standards for power plants, overturning the scientific "endangerment finding" for greenhouse gases, and reducing enforcement actions and emissions reporting requirements. For us, this means higher healthcare costs and reduced quality of life.
They must pass out rose colored glasses at Commonplace. Trump on par with Teddy Roosevelt? Pick any dimension you want and Roosevelt trounces Trump far and away.
What a crock. Trump supports hunting and fishing while simultaneously destroying the very land on which that happens through drilling, mining, and timber leases. Can’t have both.
It wasn’t that long ago that the Great Salt Lake was expanding. Wanna save it? Deal with climate change.
We have a bunch of idiots running the show, with one hand doing the opposite of what the other is doing.
"If successful, recovering the Great Salt Lake would earn President Trump a place in history alongside Theodore Roosevelt." Trump already has a place along side Theodore Roosevelt's preservation of natural resources heritage... as his opposite. This kind of sycophancy is deranged. Trump sees all land from a developer's perspective...what he can get out of it for himself. Most likely, "contributions" from fellow developers around the lake and maybe some votes. Trump has done the most damage to the natural heritage of our country of any president. He's number one, for damage.
An article like this damages Oren's effort to promote the well being of the working class as a conservative goal. It is so far from serious as to impugn Oren's own seriousness.
Oren's movement needs to disavow Trump. Some policies Trump sort of implemented may be justifiable in theory. But Trump's implementation suggests he doesn't understand the tools he's using the same way Oren does, and he's using them to the wrong ends. Trump is absolutely the wrong horse to be hitching your wagon to. You end up with the embarrassingly moronic comparison this benighted author makes.
Next, someone will write that Trump stands alongside Washington and Eisenhower as principled wartime presidents. The emperor has no clothes. It's time to say it. If you can't, you are the problem.
"But doing so will require serious commitment and effective delivery."
And if there are two consistent themes we've seen through the first year and change of this administration, it's serious commitment and effective delivery.
As an Oregon boy I was taught by my grandmother to always leave a site in better condition than when you arrived, fire pits, camping locations, picnic tables. I cry nowadays, when I see the effects of homeless encampments in parks in Oregon, where they have completely trashed the areas. In many cases these are part of national forests.🌳
My concern about further environmentalism is that the western states have something like 60% of their territory owned by the federal government. Unwillingness to cut dead wood 🪵 has led to terrible fire 🔥 danger. This loss of territory/land is not something eastern states have had to live with, still we have a duty to caretake. I hope some balance can be found. I was not aware of the conditions in Utah. I used to live in Southern California, where we have the Salton sea.
If the author were serious, he'd include the actions of Trump 2.0 in proper context, i.e. he's taken a wrecking ball to nearly anything related to 'conservation.' Actions speak louder than words, and actions include eliminating nearly all scientists working on endangered species, gutting protections on clean water, rolling back environmental regulations. Key actions include weakening mercury and toxic air emission standards for power plants, overturning the scientific "endangerment finding" for greenhouse gases, and reducing enforcement actions and emissions reporting requirements. For us, this means higher healthcare costs and reduced quality of life.
They must pass out rose colored glasses at Commonplace. Trump on par with Teddy Roosevelt? Pick any dimension you want and Roosevelt trounces Trump far and away.
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What a crock. Trump supports hunting and fishing while simultaneously destroying the very land on which that happens through drilling, mining, and timber leases. Can’t have both.
It wasn’t that long ago that the Great Salt Lake was expanding. Wanna save it? Deal with climate change.
We have a bunch of idiots running the show, with one hand doing the opposite of what the other is doing.
"If successful, recovering the Great Salt Lake would earn President Trump a place in history alongside Theodore Roosevelt." Trump already has a place along side Theodore Roosevelt's preservation of natural resources heritage... as his opposite. This kind of sycophancy is deranged. Trump sees all land from a developer's perspective...what he can get out of it for himself. Most likely, "contributions" from fellow developers around the lake and maybe some votes. Trump has done the most damage to the natural heritage of our country of any president. He's number one, for damage.
An article like this damages Oren's effort to promote the well being of the working class as a conservative goal. It is so far from serious as to impugn Oren's own seriousness.
Oren's movement needs to disavow Trump. Some policies Trump sort of implemented may be justifiable in theory. But Trump's implementation suggests he doesn't understand the tools he's using the same way Oren does, and he's using them to the wrong ends. Trump is absolutely the wrong horse to be hitching your wagon to. You end up with the embarrassingly moronic comparison this benighted author makes.
Next, someone will write that Trump stands alongside Washington and Eisenhower as principled wartime presidents. The emperor has no clothes. It's time to say it. If you can't, you are the problem.
"But doing so will require serious commitment and effective delivery."
And if there are two consistent themes we've seen through the first year and change of this administration, it's serious commitment and effective delivery.
As an Oregon boy I was taught by my grandmother to always leave a site in better condition than when you arrived, fire pits, camping locations, picnic tables. I cry nowadays, when I see the effects of homeless encampments in parks in Oregon, where they have completely trashed the areas. In many cases these are part of national forests.🌳
My concern about further environmentalism is that the western states have something like 60% of their territory owned by the federal government. Unwillingness to cut dead wood 🪵 has led to terrible fire 🔥 danger. This loss of territory/land is not something eastern states have had to live with, still we have a duty to caretake. I hope some balance can be found. I was not aware of the conditions in Utah. I used to live in Southern California, where we have the Salton sea.
-in Tennessee