In the coming years you can expect to find more polluted air, contaminated water and temperatures rising around the world. Listed below are just some of the possibilities that could result from the current plan for the environment.
1. Renewable fuel technology is not integrated.
We remain reliant on coal which is dirty. It contributes to four of the five top causes of death in the U.S. (chronic lower respiratory disease, stroke, cancer, heart disease). It also contributes to one third of carbon emissions worldwide.
2. Among other health problems, asthma will become increasingly apparent.
Asthma will have the greatest impact on children and the elderly. It will disproportionately effect those in lower income neighborhoods, or the neighborhoods that are closer to coal fired power plants.
3. The U.S. will pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement.
This will have a large impact on the entire planet. The consequences may be so severe that the entire global framework to fight climate change would crumble.
4. Cut down on environmental regulations.
The EPA will have little authority and enforcement of the Clean Air Act will collapse. The Clean Air Act has prevented over 150,000 pollution related deaths since the 1960s.
5. It will look the way it did before the EPA was created in the 1970s.
I guess dirty air and contaminated water made America great?
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