Saturday, December 10, 2016

Rain Tax. Because rain is a pollutant.

Today in Human Geography we reviewed and finished our climate change PowerPoint. When going back through the PowerPoint, we skipped the first couple of slides which we had already seen or didn’t have any notes to take. We started doing some deeper review on some slides that were right before our last stopping point. After reviewing the PowerPoint slides we had already went through there was three slides at the end, one totally new, and two that we had went over but did not use the Internet links attached. One was about oil, the second about opposing viewpoints, and the new third about the new head of the EPA (Environmental Protections Agency) elected by President elect Trump. The link on the oil company slide discussed how oil companies deal with global warming, as their byproduct can and does have many ecological and atmospherically based backlashes. However, oil companies aren’t really interested in improving the environment because that would cut off the massive flow of money they get. So, oil companies fight regulations and pay scientists to come up with false results to support the falsity of global warming. On top of that, oil companies tell everyone that global warming isn’t real, then proceeds to refit their oil rigs against rising ocean waters, a side-effect of global warming. Then there was a slide about opposing viewpoints, which we did not look at links for. The last slide was ‘breaking news’ about President Elect Trump putting in Scott Pruitt to head the EPA. Scott Pruitt has before sued the EPA multiple times before and is pretty much in self-denial over the fact that global warming is happening.

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