Hundreds of marches, pickets and cleanup events are taking place across the US in the run-up to Earth Day on Tuesday, as environmental and climate ‘groups step up resistance to the Trump administration’s authoritarianism and its “war on the planet”.
The.Guardian: “Trump is attacking migrants and the planet by aligning himself with big oil and eroding hard won protections. Climate change is the leading cause of global displacement, these are connected issues,” said Renata Pumarol, the deputy director of the Climate Organizing Hub, which coordinated the New York march. “As we fight the authoritarianism of Trump, climate groups need to be part of the resistance because we are all under threat.”
Trump and his billionaire mega-donor Elon Musk have directed the dismantling of federal offices that oversee clean air, drinking water, national parks and forests, conservation, climate smart farming, and environmental justice at dizzying speed, as well as pushing through mass layoffs at core climate and environmental agencies including the National Weather Service, Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Forest Service.”.
Meanwhile, regulatory standards for fossil fuels, petrochemical plants, mining and other polluting industries have been slashed – along with an unprecedented crackdown on free speech, migrants and universities.
These protests are nationwide and are protesting Trump’s authoritarian approach to the environment, those regulations he is removing, and those institutions which enact the regulations which safeguard the planet.
