Great piece Jason. Two things stuck out for me, the first being this sentence in 2025 plans for the EPA: Incentivizing the public to “identify scientific flaws and research misconduct” at the EPA. I can only imagine an army of flat-earthers, chem trail enthusiasts, and climate deniers, given a voice and a role in vetting serious research. The second is more general. The success of any move towards a more effective response to climate change and species extinction depends on long term predictability. Even if Trump eventually loses his bid for the Presidency, the very fact that the 2025 plan is out there, undermines confidence, both at home and abroad, and discourages investment in solutions.
Great Column Jason. Thanks for all these well-researched details. Last time, Trump overturned 100+ environmental protection laws and rules; Biden, to his credit, has been undoing the undoing that Trump did. SCOTUS, too, killed wetland protections.
Regardless of the outcome of the general election (hopefully an unambiguous MAGA thrashing) defeating Project 2025 is akin to Hercules killing the Hydra.
To heal the planet, the right-wing indoctrination network must be dealt a lethal blow. An election that defeats the reactionaries is the highest priority right now, however, bankrupting that ideology has to be the ultimate goal.
The Project 2025 Hydra has over ninety heads (Advisory Board Project 2025) funding, indoctrinating and training twenty thousand ideologues, just like Hercules, we'll need all the help we can get. Vote Blue and only Blue.
After reading this yesterday I had to take a pause on the horror of it, the gall, for another word that doesn’t describe it. I want to buy a school bus and drive it across the country with excerpts of Project 2025 on its side but it would have to be powered by what exactly? When will politicians be in service to the environment instead of the other way around.
Why isn’t this terrible “idea” being discussed on any news station… especially the smaller outlets that reach out to the uneducated country bumpkins who need to hear all this the most?
Great piece Jason. Two things stuck out for me, the first being this sentence in 2025 plans for the EPA: Incentivizing the public to “identify scientific flaws and research misconduct” at the EPA. I can only imagine an army of flat-earthers, chem trail enthusiasts, and climate deniers, given a voice and a role in vetting serious research. The second is more general. The success of any move towards a more effective response to climate change and species extinction depends on long term predictability. Even if Trump eventually loses his bid for the Presidency, the very fact that the 2025 plan is out there, undermines confidence, both at home and abroad, and discourages investment in solutions.
I WENT INTO THe MAVERICK BAR
by Gary Snyder
I went into the Maverick Bar
In Farmington, New Mexico.
And drank double shots of bourbon
backed with beer.
My long hair was tucked up under a cap
I’d left the earring in the car.
Two cowboys did horseplay
by the pool tables,
A waitress asked us
where are you from?
a country-and-western band began to play
“We don’t smoke Marijuana in Muskokie”
And with the next song,
a couple began to dance.
They held each other like in High School dances
in the fifties;
I recalled when I worked in the woods
and the bars of Madras, Oregon.
That short-haired joy and roughness—
America—your stupidity.
I could almost love you again.
We left—onto the freeway shoulders—
under the tough old stars—
In the shadow of bluffs
I came back to myself,
To the real work, to
“What is to be done.”
Gary Snyder, “I Went into the Maverick Bar” from Turtle Island. Copyright © 1974 by Gary Snyder
Great Column Jason. Thanks for all these well-researched details. Last time, Trump overturned 100+ environmental protection laws and rules; Biden, to his credit, has been undoing the undoing that Trump did. SCOTUS, too, killed wetland protections.
Regardless of the outcome of the general election (hopefully an unambiguous MAGA thrashing) defeating Project 2025 is akin to Hercules killing the Hydra.
To heal the planet, the right-wing indoctrination network must be dealt a lethal blow. An election that defeats the reactionaries is the highest priority right now, however, bankrupting that ideology has to be the ultimate goal.
The Project 2025 Hydra has over ninety heads (Advisory Board Project 2025) funding, indoctrinating and training twenty thousand ideologues, just like Hercules, we'll need all the help we can get. Vote Blue and only Blue.
https://globalextremism.org/project-2025-the-far-right-playbook-for-american-authoritarianism/#two
After reading this yesterday I had to take a pause on the horror of it, the gall, for another word that doesn’t describe it. I want to buy a school bus and drive it across the country with excerpts of Project 2025 on its side but it would have to be powered by what exactly? When will politicians be in service to the environment instead of the other way around.
Terrifying.
Great article on a devastating topic!!!
Why isn’t this terrible “idea” being discussed on any news station… especially the smaller outlets that reach out to the uneducated country bumpkins who need to hear all this the most?