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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsinteresting read - Slate - "How has trump changed America"
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/how-has-trump-changed-america.htmlA year ago, a bunch of us made predictions for what this presidency might bring. Now, weve reassessedand found many of them were surprisingly accurate.
By SLATE STAFF
Despite the overwhelming evidence that time is a flat circle, Donald Trump has been in office just a hair past one year. Prior to his inauguration, we asked Slate staff and other experts to make predictions on how his presidency would change America. We recently asked the contributors to reassess those predictions, as a window into just how influentialand unpredictablethis presidency has been so far. We werent able to evaluate every original prediction here, but we aim to revisit them each year for as long as Trump is in office.
Environment
Prediction, Polar Bears: The Trump administrations refusal to accept the role human-caused emissions play in climate change will stall meaningful action. The U.S.s withdrawal from collective action plans including the Paris Agreement will destabilize progress toward emission reduction around the world. As a result, the polar bear, which the Fish and Wildlife Service recently reported as being existentially threatened thanks to diminishing sea ice, will go extinct.
One Year Later: Too Soon to Tell. Trump did take the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, though how destabilizing that has been to international efforts is unclear. (Given the rest of the worlds feelings about America, perhaps our exit will ultimately serve as a perverse motivation for everyone else to act.) Polar bears are still hanging on for the time being.
Susan Matthews, Slate science editor
Prediction, Drinking Water: Despite big talk about improving infrastructure, Trumps pick for the Environmental Protection Agency has a penchant for suing the very agency he will lead and a worldview that the states should really be responsible for ensuring that our pipes deliver clean water. With Scott Pruitt in charge, well see one or more public health disasters like the one in Flint, Michigan.
One Year Later: True Enough. It wasnt Scott Pruitts doing, but the inadequate federal response to Hurricane Mariato which the presidents biggest contributions were throwing paper towels into a crowd and getting mad at the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, who is not coincidentally a woman who supported Hillary Clintonhas certainly created a public health crisis thats unfortunately affected even more Americans than the tragic situation in Flint.
Ben Mathis-Lilley, chief news blogger
snip - lots more - covers the gamut.
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interesting read - Slate - "How has trump changed America" (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Feb 2018
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yup. I suspect only much of the media is surprised (or maybe just acting like they are)
NRaleighLiberal
Feb 2018
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Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)1. hell, a blind man could have seen this shit coming...
NRaleighLiberal
(59,940 posts)2. yup. I suspect only much of the media is surprised (or maybe just acting like they are)