{"id":25805,"date":"2017-01-08T12:08:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T20:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25805"},"modified":"2017-01-08T12:08:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T20:08:33","slug":"say-no-to-environmental-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/08\/say-no-to-environmental-tyranny\/","title":{"rendered":"Say NO to Environmental Tyranny!"},"content":{"rendered":"

People keep asking how they can RESIST<\/strong>!!  They want to know what they can do.  I’m almost fortunate that my physical limitations dovetail with my skills to carve me out the niche I occupy: information and analysis.  One thing we can do is support each other’s causes, instead of limiting ourselves to our own boutique issues, and I try to do that.  Though white, I champion minority issues.  Though straight, I champion LGBT issues.  Though carnivorous (we cats are), I champion animal welfare issues.  Though male, I champion women’s issues.  Tomorrow, you have a chance to champion climate issues.<\/font><\/p>\n

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What\u2019s Going On?<\/h6>\n

President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s cabinet picks continue to horrify, as we approach the confirmation hearings for the \u201cbillionaires, generals, and ideologues\u201d<\/a> that he wants to appoint. This group threatens to roll back hard-won civil rights, make healthcare harder to access, and destroy the few regulations we have policing Wall Street. And thanks to Trump\u2019s appointment of climate change-deniers to prominent posts related to the environment, they threaten to destroy our planet.<\/p>\n

Any nominee who denies the dangers of climate change and the need to end our reliance on fossil fuels must be stopped. There are quite a few of them. Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson was the CEO of Exxon, a company that funded climate-change denial for years after their own research pointed to the veracity of human-caused global warming. Environmental Protection Agency nominee Scott Pruitt built a career suing the very agency he is set to head. Secretary of Energy pick Former Texas Governor Rick Perry once advocated for the total elimination of the Department of Energy and sat on the board of the company building the Dakota Access Pipeline. <\/p>\n

What can I do?<\/h6>\n

This Monday, January 9th, join the Day Against Denial<\/a>. To show that we won\u2019t stand for a climate-denying cabinet, people across the country will gather at their senators\u2019 offices to demand that they reject Trump\u2019s reckless picks. <\/p>\n

You can find a map of events in all 50 states here<\/a> and if you don\u2019t see one in your area, there\u2019s a toolkit to help you organize one yourself. Even if you can\u2019t make a protest, follow #DayAgainstDenial on twitter and be sure to spread the word…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From <The Nation<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

Please click through for more.  I would certainly encourage all who can to participate in an event near you.<\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People keep asking how they can RESIST!!  They want to know what they can do.  I’m almost fortunate that my physical limitations dovetail with my skills to carve me out the niche I occupy: information and analysis.  One thing we can do is support each other’s causes, instead of limiting ourselves to our own boutique […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}