Our "Environmentalist" president.

President Trump has instructed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to exempt Alaska’s 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest from logging restrictions imposed nearly 20 years ago, according to three people briefed on the issue, after privately discussing the matter with the state’s governor aboard Air Force One.

The move would affect more than half of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, opening it up to potential logging, energy and mining projects.
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In case you're wondering, the timber industry provides less than 1% of all jobs in Alaska. So if not workers, who's benefitting?

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SW-User

“According to three unnamed people BRIEFED on the issue” sounds like some legit sources you have there

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Graylight · 51-55, F

@SW-User Last I checked, I'm not your 7th grade civics teacher. If you want to be armed with knowledge in order to debate a point - this is where we do that - then come prepared and do the work to inform yourself.What data have you brought to this conversation? Don't be lazy.

http://movies2.nytimes.com/library/politics/052700tongass-roads.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/trump-pushes-to-allow-new-logging-in-alaskas-tongass-national-forest/2019/08/27/b4ca78d6-c832-11e9-be05-f76ac4ec618c_story.html?noredirect=on

https://www.alaskawild.org/places-we-protect/tongass-national-forest/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongass_National_Forest

https://www.hcn.org/articles/latest-update-court-blocks-old-growth-logging-in-alaska-tongass-national-forest

https://www.courthousenews.com/alaska-miners-loggers-lose-fight-tongass-forest/

http://www.sitkawild.org/category/issues/tongass/wilderness/page/3/

https://www.seacc.org/tongass

https://merid.org/case-studies/

As for the other 83 environmental rollbacks, you'll have to find the time to do a little work yourself.

SW-User

@Graylight you still don’t get the issue but instead you are trying to argue a whole other point that that will in turn change the topic and we will never accomplish anything from this debate.

Graylight · 51-55, F

@SW-User And I believe you are mistaken. I am directly responding to the above post.

Northwest · M

He does not want to look weak, relative to Jair Bolsonaro. The latter has an entire Amazon to ruin, and his wife is a few years younger than Melania. The French President, Macron, is jealous.

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

Would you believe the people of the United States?

Graylight · 51-55, F

@sunsporter1649 What are you even saying now?

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@Graylight Ever built a house?

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