TRUMP'S MOST CALAMITOUS EXECUTIVE ORDER

Sure, many of President Trump's executive orders are leading us to a constitutional crisis.  But what is the worst case scenario?  We lose Democracy and become a Dictatorship.  Terrible, but most of us will carry on with our lives, and so will the rest of the world.

Other Trump edicts will hurt the poor, middle class and elderly.  There will be serious reductions in social benefits, especially in medicine,  public welfare, education and the like.  But many of those hurt should have anticipated this course of action if they voted for Trump, or not.  

Social Security will fade and become unavailable for most, and those already on it, will see payments decline over time.  But again, they will survive, only not so well.  The rich?  They will do better, probably muchly so.

The most damaging of all Trump acts is in the remediation of global warming.  This could be so serious as to lead to billions of human deaths, and perhaps trigger the Holocene extinction, also known as the Anthropocene extinction and Sixth Extinction.  To quote Wikipedia:

Current extinction rates are estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than natural background extinction rates^{[9][10][11][12][13]} and are accelerating.^[14] Over the past 100–200 years, biodiversity loss has reached such alarming levels^[10] that some conservation biologists now believe human activities have triggered a mass extinction,^[15][16]or are on the cusp of doing so.^[17][18]

In other words, what President Trump is doing to the environment is hasten the leap to that crucial tipping point.  Time magazine reported:

• During Trump’s first term, the administration put climate on the back burner—rolling back more than 125 environmental rules and policies. When former-President Joe Biden took office, he led the U.S. forward on climate action, signing the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest federal climate change investment in American history.
• Voters mostly forgot all that, and not even a month into his second term, Trump has expanded his effort to destroy the environment.

Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law’s “Climate Backtracker,” has logged more than 45 efforts to scale back or eliminate federal climate mitigation and adaptation measures since the administration took office at the end of January—ranging from boosting fossil-fuel production to withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accords. 

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  On his first day of his presidency, he again withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, signed by 200 countries in 2015.  In some ways, this could well be his strategy to gain fairness in expenditures, for this Agreement allows some countries like China and India to delay doing much.
• On his fourth day of this second term, he proposed getting rid of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).  

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  Last week Trump signed an executive order to "drill, baby, drill."  Just something he had promised to do, even though during the Biden Administration, the country had already reached record production highs.  In other words, his words were meaningless.

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  His newly created Department of Governmental Efficiency terminated the employment of 400 members of the Environmental Protection Agency.  Trump's EPA Administrator is Lee Zeldin.

“If you are a fossil fuel company, a plastics company, a chemical company — you’ve got to be pretty happy with this appointment, but it’s going to be an environmental disaster for the rest of us,” Enck says. “He is a loyal devotee of Donald Trump, and he’ll do whatever anti-environmental policy Trump tells him to do.”

Zeldin will be charged with doing at the EPA can be found in Project 2025. The 900-page blueprint for Trump’s term, compiled by the Heritage Foundation, includes around 150 pages that relate to energy and the environment. It outlines how the Trump administration could weaken the Clean Air Act, expand oil and gas drilling, hobble climate research, allow more pollution of waterways, and more. 

• Froze $3 billion dollars allocated to expand the network of electric vehicle charging stations.  Fossil fuels for transportation is the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions (28%).

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