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| Critical-thinking public and a passionate science community. |
We didn’t know what the presidential election would bring when we started planning the science issue.
We did know that climate change was not getting the rapid response we thought it merited from political leaders of every party. And we noticed more outspoken scientists challenging the convenient magical thinking of energy corporations and unfazed politicians.
It made us consider the powerful alliance of a critical-thinking public and a passionate science community advocating for the common good.
That was then. Now Donald Trump is in the White House, and the leaders from the fossil fuel industry pepper his team of advisers and Cabinet. The White House website’s “Climate Change” page has been replaced with an “America First Energy Plan” page. Trump has frozen grants and contracts at the EPA. There are gag orders and media blackouts.
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