Trump Admin Discovers More Oil, Less Climate Reality
AP reports Trump plans new offshore oil drilling, systematically reversing climate initiatives. This comes despite federal waters off Florida being drilling-free since 1995 due to oil spill concerns. California, too, hasn't seen new federal leasing since the mid-1980s. One might wonder if the 'greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world' isn't climate change itself, but the idea that we can
drill our way out of its consequences. Ignoring the inconvenient truths of past disasters—like the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill or the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe which devastated the Gulf Coast—the administration proceeds with drills. Trump's self-proclaimed 'energy dominance' appears to mean dominance over environmental sanity and long-term sustainability, ensuring the next generation
inherits a planet as 'dominant' in pollution as we are in production. The cycle of resource extraction, disaster, promises, and repeat continues, apparently unburdened by evidence.