Typical far-left Progressive.
Demanding solutions for problems that do not exist.
Markle, it is the supreme duty of every radical Progressive to, first thing every day before anything else, to find and create non-existent problems and issues to be unhappy and ***** about. Their world would fly apart if they were ever to simply like their life and accept the world as it is.
The problem with "accepting the world as it is" - that is, as you want it to be - is that we'd have to accept:
child abuse at the border
discrimination against homosexuals
increased pollution in our air, land and water
the myth that climate change isn't real
the myth that some religions aren't religions because you say so
the myth that Trump doesn't lie (it's all literary license)
the fact that you don't believe women have any right to control their own bodies
and a lot of other unacceptable stuff.
About 3 of those myths have a basis in reality and/or any SERIOUS consequences. The others are just irritations or misrepresentations of fact...
For instance, what makes you believe in the "INCREASED air and water pollution"??? To paraphrase what Tooby said accepting the world as it is" -- there is no such thing as completely clean air and water except in laboratories.. I've drunk 99.99995% pure water and it tastes the same as most tap water anywhere I've lived..
Not to say that we don't HAVE REAL enviro problems.. But pressing standards BEYOND the science and medical justifications just makes it HARDER for folks who live in areas with NATURAL trace amounts of "bad stuff".. Amounts that are FAR BELOW science and medical standards...
And the FACT IS -- our air and water are multifold CLEANER than "before we cared"... I'm tired of seeing seeing "warning signs" on trails that mark places where NATURAL RUNOFF into a stream is considered a hazard worthy of an EPA waiver.. And the counties in which that runoff occurs are ALLOCATED only so many waivers.. There MIGHT be deer poop or minerals in that water -- but it's as clean as it was 200 years ago as a wilderness..
I would say all of them have a basis in reality.
But on pollution - it's not static. We are constantly inventing new technologies that create new chemicals and pollutants. We are also finding that what was once thought safe levels are not. In addition, you have further issues from rising sea-levels leading to increased flooding in coastal areas that threaten pollute aquifers. You can't just say the laws of yesterday are sufficient when the process itself is constantly changing.
IN GENERAL, we are FAR cleaner every decade.. Not patting us on the back, because ALL COUNTRIES as they mature and advance become cleaner...
In FACT -- as concerns CO2 emissions which ARE NOT "Pollution", the US has FAR SURPASSED most of the actual signers of the Paris accord in REDUCING them.. We NOW emit less CO2 than we DID in the 1990s... WHY???? Because of fracking and making us energy independent with natural gas..
AND THAT was done DESPITE every obstacle tossed in the path of that development by the Fed Govt...
ALL water and air standards have been BELOW medical/scientific standards of harm for a couple decades now.. We DON'T want to be like California that comically lists almost EVERYTHING as a "carcinogen".. That's neither SCIENCE OR MEDICINE.. It's an ACTUAL CULT of belief.... For example --
California could list common pain killer acetaminophen as carcinogen
NO.. That was NOT the Onion or the Bablylon Bee.. It's WHY I LEFT Cali about 15 years ago now.. I could not COPE with the Idiocracy that's there in power...
And that's WHY these regs need to be fought... Because of the ******* over reach by illiterate MORONS who want a ZERO RISK environment.. There is no such thing... When you get down to listing Aspirin and Coffee as "pollutants" and carcinogens, it's time to take out the clowns driving the bus..
We can do Sea level rise some other time.. But the WARNINGS about 9 or 12 FEET by 2100 are pure garbage science.. It ASSUMES COMPLETE MELTING of Antarctica and Greenland between then and now and just AINT gonna happen unless he ACTIVE VOLCANOES under Antarctic CAUSE it... It which case, we'll have less than a couple months warning and have WASTED the world's economy by "keeping the world safe from CO2...