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Letter: Reject Trump, Project 2025

By David Milne, Lacey
Published: September 2, 2024, 6:00am

Have you worried about the ozone hole lately? The gigantic planet-scale change spreading in the stratosphere that once threatened humanity, agriculture and the oceans with damage and/or destruction? No? That’s because it’s (effectively) gone. Stopped by exactly the right understanding and cooperation among industrialists, scientists, politicians, citizens, President Ronald Reagan and international diplomats. Those actions were a dress rehearsal for stopping climate change.

That won’t happen if Donald Trump becomes president. His Project 2025 forbids government from even talking about climate change, let alone using lessons learned during the ozone hole crisis. Project 2025 calls for repeal of the most sweeping actions ever taken for reducing CO2 emissions (provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act) and “neutralizing” government scientists who study and warn about climate change.

Ramped-up hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, floods, extreme heat and ocean acidification — all getting worse — mean nothing to the Trump enablers who created Project 2025. The only way to stop the catastrophes that those GOP saboteurs are willing to inflict on America is to keep Trump out of the White House. That would kill Project 2025, once and for all.

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