Antinuclear

Ecology be damned -we won’t know what’s hit us after January 20th

Sorry I’m such a pessimist. Don’t pay too much attention to my stuff – I am hoping that I’m wrong, anyway !

BUT – I have previously written about the speed with which Donald Trump could turn the USA into an absolute dictatorship. I compared this process to the process by which Adolf Hitler took just seven and a half weeks, using legal means, to change his parliamentary position from a relatively powerless role to one of complete control. Opponents didn’t know what hit them: it was so fast.

The other insidious thing about Hitler’s early regime was that, in the first years, the workers had never had it so good. Hitler was never voted in as leader, but became popular once in. Trump has some popularity already – and perhaps will get more of it?

Meanwhile – Dharna Noor scrutinised the agenda for Project 25 – and it is scary stuff.

Project 2025, was convened by the notorious rightwing, climate-denying thinktank the Heritage Foundation, which has ties to fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch. Called the Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, it is meant to guide the first 180 days of presidency for an incoming Republican president.

Earth Justice sets it out in detail:

Project 2025 is 900 pages, and 150 of them are about how to destroy the environment. This deregulatory agenda, written by former Trump government officials and Heritage Foundation staff, would strip away our rights to clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet.

Earth Justice takes a legal approach: – We are here because the earth needs a good lawyer. When we go to court, we get results. We go to court to defend the planet and its people.

What a terrific organisation! And they have had many victories in the past.

Never needed more than today – Earth Justice has over 200 attorneys lined up with strategies to counter Donald Trump’s administration with it plans to shred environmental protections.

BUT – is Donald Trump a jump ahead of them?

What Donald Trump is – is a wrecker! He apparently has a sort of artistic instinct directed towards wrecking humanity’s collective institutions – and first among the institutions to be wrecked – is the Law. He’s already managed to manipulate himself into the kingly position of being above the law – “immunity from prosecution”

Unfortunately, Trump has many greedy and ambitious sycophants, all too willing to carry out the manipulations needed to destroy human rights and environmental protections. Today I note one important example – Project 2025 calls for massive changes to Hanford nuclear cleanup – to weaken the rules on nuclear radiation.

Earth Justice, and we who care about the planet, are out there in our millions. I do hope that somehow we can organise, and prevent the planetary destruction that the new American government intends to carry out.

November 28, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized