What's wrong with this? They're right. You honestly come off badly here as Trump is promising to dismantle the EPA. But Gj making fun of some gaffer I guess.
The survival of the very planet did not hang in the balance on the outcome of this election. Actually dismantling the EPA (something I find to be unlikely but accepting the premise) will not immediately end life on the planet.
The United States is not the significant factor in the global climate or even in environmental pollution anymore. Despite doing barely anything we've dropped in carbon emissions and general pollution drastically over the last 25 years. 75-80% in many cases, 90%! in some. We met a whole bunch of standards we never accepted by
default, whereas countries that had signed on still haven't.
It's cost effective for U.S. businesses and the energy industry as a whole, it's why this has happened despite not only a lack of new significant efforts but a rollback of existing regulations during that same period. Emissions from the energy industry dropped something like 15% last year despite no significant regulatory changes compared to even the prior two years.
The elections in China will prove much more important on this factor than Hillary or Trump replacing Obama's barely expansive environmental agenda. (Not entirely his fault, the House has been GOP for coming up on six years now and last two have had a GOP Senate.) None of the three could actually heal the planet and "slow the rise of the oceans" and its silly to think otherwise. They aren't gods.
People thinking a four or eight year setback in only U.S. policy will actually end the stability of the planet and kill billions within our lifetime are ignoring the scientific consensus which explicitly says otherwise.
