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.
https://a.msn.com/r/2/AAGpBL4?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare

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

Virgo79 · 61-69, M

@SW-User that works for CNN😂

Graylight · 51-55, F

@SW-User An unnamed source is as old as journalism. And much better than utterly transparent BS made up by a narcissistic madman.

Virgo79 · 61-69, M

@Graylight correct, try something new

Graylight · 51-55, F

@Virgo79 Good answer. 🙄

Virgo79 · 61-69, M

@Graylight was a statement, as no one ask🙄

SW-User

@Graylight unlike others I’m not here to argue or be disrespectful just express my opinion. Unnamed sources have always been in journalism, but what line do we stay behind? Here’s an example according to atheists the Bible is valid as a source because it’s literally
according to people briefed with secondhand knowledge of people who witnessed events
so if that is the case the sources that were sourced for this article are most certainly not valid.

Virgo79 · 61-69, M

@SW-User oh this guys gonna argue😉

Graylight · 51-55, F

@SW-User This is a well documented and protracted struggle that has spanned more than a decade, starting well before Trump's tenure. The legal briefs, the newspaper articles and the government hearings are all part of the public record. Simply failing to seek information does not make that information nonexistent.

SW-User

That’s a really wordy rebuttal that doesn’t address the point. You definitely could be a politician. That information is nonexistent in the sources you stated. Nothing you said addressed that@Graylight

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.