The Trump administration knows the planet is going to boil. It doesn't care | Bill McKibben
by Bill McKibben from Environment | The Guardian on (#3ZZPS)
Trump's team used last week to sneak in disastrous, linked policies on climate change and child refugee camps
In the cloud of toxic dust thrown up by the Kavanaugh hearings last week, two new Trump initiatives slipped by with less notice than they deserve. Both are ugly, stupid - and they are linked, though in ways not immediately apparent.
In the first, the administration provided the rationale for scrapping President Obama's automobile mileage standards: because Trump's crew now officially expects the planet to warm by 4C . In the environmental impact statement they say it wouldn't make much difference to the destruction of the planet if we all keep driving SUVs.
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