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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat's the payoff for overturning the Clean Water act?
There has to be one.
Towlie
(5,333 posts)As O'Brien said to Winston Smith, "The purpose of power is power, and the purpose of torture is torture." For Trump, the purpose of evil is evil. The more evil he does, the more his supporters love him.
Iggo
(47,625 posts)Corporate Welfare. Privatize profits. Socialize costs.
gopiscrap
(23,769 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Wall Street Bankers who supplied the Funding for all these Cleanup projects.
mahina
(17,797 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,628 posts)moondust
(20,042 posts)corporate executives and shareholders believe they can get richer faster if they no longer have to pay "extra" overhead to process their waste materials responsibly because now they can simply dump it in the nearest river or stream.
Love Canals for everybody!!!
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,606 posts)It's the main reason Fat Donnie pulled out of the Paris Accords; industry making the changes necessary to protect the environment would cut into corporate profits.
mahina
(17,797 posts)2naSalit
(87,090 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,606 posts)I'm sure there is some financial relationship between the fossil fuel industry and Fat Donnie, otherwise why would he have been so supportive of coal in 2016.
Of course, after he was elected, miners still found themselves unemployed.
hunter
(38,362 posts)The people he hates most drink tap water.
Trump also hates nature.
Can you imagine Trump camping in the Sierra like Teddy Roosevelt?
He wouldn't last five minutes, and it's not because he's old. My octogenarian parents and in-laws live with nature on their doorsteps and mud on their boots.
Roosevelt, Muir, and The Camping Trip
On March 14, 1903, Theodore Roosevelt wrote a personal letter to Muir asking Muir to take him through the Yosemite. He noted, "I do not want anyone with me but you, and I want to drop politics absolutely for four days and just be out in the open with you." Roosevelt had read some of Muir's writings in which he explained how the wild forests were vanishing as ranchers and developers destroyed the wilderness for their own uses and for money. While most of Roosevelts advisors thought that America's wilderness was too large to ever be depleted, Roosevelt wondered if this were really so and could the government help?
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https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2016/08/roosevelt-muir-and-the-camping-trip/
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