What Biden Speech was Andy Biggs Watching

Polls broadcast after President Joe Biden’s first speech to a joint session of Congress showed tremendous support for what the new Chief Executive had to say. According to reporting from Axios: CBS reported 85 percent of viewers approved the speech and 78 percent felt more optimistic about the future of the country afterward. CNN found … Read more

The Trump administration has a bigger turnover rate than McDonald’s

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, despite behaving like a sycophant to the unhinged whims of the KKK-endorsed candidate, resigned during the evening of April 7, 2019, rather than follow through with the reinstituting of family separation policies. She was this Administration’s second Homeland Security Secretary and this is just the third year of the Trump … Read more

Climate Change Deniers Must heed the Lessons of Noah and the Ark

In the telling of the later versions of the Genesis tale of Noah and the Ark (those not in the original Biblical accounts), the people are shown mocking Noah and his family for wasting a century in constructing the large vessel that would sustain them and the selected animals during the flood. In other versions, they ignore Noah’s warnings to build arks of their own so they avoid the cataclysm that God intended for Earth. Today, with a significant portion of the Trump (formerly Republican) Party denying the existence of human-made climate change, it is easy now to see the Genesis Flood story as one of climate change with Noah as the protagonist warning people of the natural catastrophe that was about to be unleashed and the rest of the populace denying and ridiculing him until it was too late. Today, it is the scientists warning of the consequences of our actions and inactions on climate change and it is the Trump Administration, in denying its own far-reaching report, that are not heeding the lessons of history and pursuing policies to combat the problem while it still can be.

We need to pay heed to the environmental lessons of Noah and the Ark.

It is ironic that the now Trump Party in its former Republican Party form once embraced and championed science, land conservation, and environmental protection. It was a Republican President Theodore Roosevelt that helped develop the United States Forest and Park Services. It was a Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, following the launch of Sputnik, who oversaw the creation of N.A.S.A. and the start of the space race. It was a Republican President Richard Nixon that signed the legislation that created the Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) and Clean Air Act.

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