It took a 16-year-old from Sweden and other youngsters like her to push the governments of the world and this week's UN Summit to finally start paying some sort of attention to the global crisis that faces humanity. I fear these so called leaders will continue to do nothing as the climate spirals out of control.
The current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, despite Greta's emotional plea for change on the environment, couldn't be bothered to stay more than 15 minutes. What a sorry excuse for a leader he is. President Obama met with Greta and started taking steps to reduce America's climate footprint, and Trump has since backed out or reversed all those positive steps. He pulled the United States out of the Paris Accords and overturned all the regulations that Obama put in place to protect the environment.
As recently as last week, No. 45 (the Dumpster fire that is Donald J. Trump), decided that California could no longer have high standards for CO2 emissions. Republicans use to be in favor of states' rights. In fact, they still would perpetuate the myth and have us believe that they are in favor of states' rights, except when it comes to things that they don't like.
For example, they will tell you it is each individual states' right to decide on abortion, not the Federal government, or that it's each states' right to decide on gun regulation, not the Federal government, or they would tell you that it's each states' right to choose their own health care laws, not the Federal government, but in this case, when their greed is so pronounced, they would have you believe that each state does not have the right to choose on climate regulations for their respective state.
It is you, Mitch McConnell, and you, Kevin McCarthy, and you, Dumpster fire, that Greta and those of her generation will never forgive for their blatent inaction. SHAME on all of you!
