{"id":31791,"date":"2018-03-02T06:47:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T11:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31791"},"modified":"2018-03-02T06:47:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T11:47:53","slug":"someone-tell-a-reporter-the-rich-are-destroying-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31791","title":{"rendered":"Someone Tell a Reporter: the Rich are Destroying the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/03\/02\/someone-tell-a-reporter-the-rich-are-destroying-the-earth\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Someone Tell a Reporter: the Rich are Destroying the Earth<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"socialtwo\">\n<div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 a2a_default_style left-social\" data-a2a-icon-color=\"unset\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p><strong>\u201cI Said Why? They Said They Didn\u2019t Know\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let history record that on Wednesday, September 6<sup>th<\/sup>, 2017, 14 days after climate change-fueled Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas and 4 days before Hurricane Irma hit southern Florida, the climate-denying President of the United States Donald Trump went to North Dakota to deliver a \u201ctax reform\u201d speech before hundreds of workers and managers at a major oil refinery. The president made comments so senseless and stupid that one must read them twice to believe they were uttered:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2026want to tell the people of North Dakota and the Western states who are feeling the pain of the devastating drought that we are with you 100 percent \u2014 100 percent. \u00a0(Applause.) \u00a0And I\u2019ve been in close touch, numerous times, with our Secretary of Agriculture, who is doing a fantastic job, Sonny Perdue, who has been working with your governor and your delegation to help provide relief. \u00a0And we\u2019re doing everything we can, but you have a pretty serious drought. \u00a0<em>I just said to the governor, I didn\u2019t know you had droughts this far north.<\/em>\u00a0<em>Guess what? \u00a0You have them. \u00a0But we\u2019re working hard on it and it\u2019ll disappear. \u00a0It will all go away.<\/em>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then Trump got into the real eco-cidal meat of the matter \u2013 the de-regulation of energy and the lifting of restrictions on fossil fuel extraction and burning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019re getting rid of one job-killing regulation after another. \u00a0We\u2019ve lifted the restrictions on shale oil. \u00a0We\u2019ve lifted those restrictions on energy of all types. \u00a0We\u2019re putting our miners back to work. \u00a0We\u2019ve cancelled restrictions on oil and natural gas. \u00a0We\u2019ve ended the EPA intrusion into your jobs and into your lives. \u00a0(Applause.) \u00a0And we\u2019re refocusing the EPA on its core mission: \u00a0clean air and clean water. \u00a0(Applause.).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone Tell a Reporter: the Rich are Destroying the Earth \u201cI Said Why? They Said They Didn\u2019t Know\u201d Let history record that on Wednesday, September 6th, 2017, 14 days after climate change-fueled Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas and 4 days before Hurricane Irma hit southern Florida, the climate-denying President of the United States Donald [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,5493,7844,220,19026,328,15269],"class_list":["post-31791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-counterpunch","tag-donald-trump","tag-drought","tag-ecocide","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-paul-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31792,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31791\/revisions\/31792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}