Jim Hightower, an outspoken liberal voice in Texas, posts a warning about the Republicans’ strategy to wipe out environmental regulations if they regain the presidency in 2025. Despite the climate disasters occurring all over the world and in every corner of this nation, the GOP puts greed over survival.
Hightower writes:
When your political opponents push extremist public policies that would be disastrous for America, should you wring your hands in dread… or applaud?
Consider “Project 2025,” put together by former Trump officials and the Koch brothers’ network of billionaire plutocrats. Their strategy is to win the presidency next year by demonizing all environmental protections and promising to halt all national efforts to cope with the obvious crises of climate change. Their proposals include repealing regulations that curb fossil fuel pollution, terminating our nation’s transition to renewable energy, shutting down all environmental protection agencies, encouraging more oil and gas drilling and use, and promoting the deadly delusion that global warming is not a real problem.
Moreover, they intend to implement Project 2025 in the first 180 days of a right-wing Republican’s presidential term – obviously anticipating that Donald Trump will be that president. “We are not tinkering at the edges,” brags a far-out right-wing group that instigated the scheme, “We are writing a battle plan and we are marshalling our forces.” They’ve already drawn up a list of agencies and policies they’ll begin eliminating on Day One, and they’ve readied a list of some 20,000 right-wing henchmen to put on the federal payroll immediately to enforce their plan.
If this sounds ludicrous, it is. But it’s actually happening, for the Republican Party has decided to be ludicrous. As the director of Project 2025 told the New York Times, “[This is] where the conservative movement sits at this time.”
Maybe, but it damn sure won’t sit well with the American people, who’re presently suffering the hellish ravages of our rapidly overheating climate. Indeed, here’s a great chance for Democrats to demonstrate their bipartisan spirit by doing all they can to publicize the Republicans’ let-it-burn global warming policy.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Fascists often spin a web of lies in order the suppress the truth. The GOP is anti-truth, science and justice, all elements of regressive extremism and fascism. They want us to ignore the harsh reality that climate change is a real existential threat to all living creatures on the earth so oil and gas can continue to plunder and profit while the forests burn, the oceans become too warm to support life and regular people can no longer find affordable home owner’s insurance. This is not the time to accept the right wing’s attempt to cover up our collective reality. People with common sense and a conscience need to vote them out, defeat them and send them packing. The GOP wants override any attempts to regulate carbon emissions. They will always put profit over people.
“These disgraceful poison pill riders are nothing short of corporate giveaways to the corrupt fossil fuel industry.”
Deanna Noël of Public Citizen
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Usually the Rethugs don’t telegraph any policy plans and actions as they know the majority will reject them. But hey, when one is desperate. . . .
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The Republican Party represents the wealthiest Americans and no one else. So, it makes sense that they would do what they are planning to do if they take back the White House, electing a fascist loving president that will ignore Congress and the Courts no matter if that hame is Trump, DeSantis, Haley or Abbott.
“They found the wealthiest 10% in the US, households making more than about $178,000, were responsible for 40% of the nation’s human-caused, planet-heating pollution. The income of the top 1% alone – households making more than $550,000 – was linked to 15% to 17% of this pollution.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/17/business/rich-americans-climate-footprint-emissions/index.html#:~:text=They%20found%20the%20wealthiest%2010,to%2017%25%20of%20this%20pollution.
“Yet variations across income groups are even more significant. The top 1% of emitters globally each had carbon footprints of over 50 tonnes of CO2 in 2021, more than 1 000 times greater than those of the bottom 1% of emitters.”
https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-world-s-top-1-of-emitters-produce-over-1000-times-more-co2-than-the-bottom-1
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The GOP should eliminate their party to mitigate climate change
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Republican party has co-opted the slogan of 1960s anarchist : “BURN BABY BURN “
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“The nearly 1,000-page transition guide was written by more than 350 rightwingers and is full of sweeping recommendations to deconstruct all sectors of the federal government– – including environmental policy.”
What a waste of 1000 pages. I am waiting for the brave rightwing candidate who will put the denial of the ongoing climate catastrophy as the main issue for her candidacy.
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