Celebrating Earth Day Trump's Way

IT SOMEHOW SEEMS APPROPRIATE that on earth Day, President Trump announces his intention to continue to destroy environmental protection legislation, declaring that the best protection for the environment is the free market. Quite obviously, the free market is precisely the reason why the earth's environment is now in deadly peril, as decades of unregulated corporate activity have given corporations a free pass to throw their poisonous waste materials into rivers, lakes, and the atmosphere and land. As usual, president Trump is so drastically wrong that he seems to be either oblivious to reality, or purposely disregarding it in his make more money for the wealthy agenda. The year of the first Earth Day, 1970, was about the time that lake Eerie and a major river flowing into it caught on fire; the water so saturated with flammable material that fire spread across the water's surface. That's what happened in the days before government regulation began to force the free market to take responsibility for their environmentally destructive habits. Anyone who accepts the reality of human made climate change is not allowed to work in the Trump administration. The Director of the EPA has no concern for environmental protection, preferring to assist big business in capturing large profits while disregarding environmental protection, having spent his career filing lawsuits against the EPA prior to his assuming the leadership of the agency, which is probably why Trump nominated him in the first place. For the sake of the environment, it is to be hoped that it won't have to endure many more years, if any, of this destructive administration.