People who’ve lived their lives in concrete jungles do things like what we read in this headline from the New York Times: “The Trump Administration Is Reversing Nearly 100 Environmental Rules.” This doesn’t square with global warming, clean air, or protection of the wild things. - This old proverb comes to mind - “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”Saturday, May 9, 2020
A Reversal
People who’ve lived their lives in concrete jungles do things like what we read in this headline from the New York Times: “The Trump Administration Is Reversing Nearly 100 Environmental Rules.” This doesn’t square with global warming, clean air, or protection of the wild things. - This old proverb comes to mind - “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
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