____________________________________ From: [email protected] To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Sent: 4/29/2017 4:41:25 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time Subj: Link To McKibben Article The Planet Doesn't Have Time For This
_The Opinion Pages_ (https://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html) _Continue reading the main story_ (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/opinion/the-planet-cant-stand-this-presidency.html#story) Share This Page The Planet Can’t Stand This Presidency Trump is in charge at a critical moment for keeping climate change in check. We may never recover. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/opinion/the-planet-cant-stand-this-presid ency.html Excerpts By BILL McKIBBEN President Trump’s environmental onslaught will have immediate, dangerous effects. He has vowed to reopen coal mines and moved to keep the dirtiest power plants open for many years into the future. Dirty air, the kind you get around coal-fired power plants, kills people. It’s much the same as his policies on health care or refugees: Real people (the poorest and most vulnerable people) will be hurt in real time. That’s why the resistance has been so fierce. But there’s an extra dimension to the environmental damage. What Mr. Trump is trying to do to the planet’s climate will play out over geologic time as well. In fact, it’s time itself that he’s stealing from us. What I mean is, we have only a short window to deal with the climate crisis or else we forever lose the chance to thwart truly catastrophic heating. For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ If you have questions about this list please contact the list manager, Tom Shelley, at [email protected].
