For Donald Trump : Don't Condemn the World to Forced Climate Change

On the 28th March 2017, Donald Trump has announced that he is to sign an executive order, overturning the previous Obama administration's plans to tackle global warming. His main reason is that combating climate change harms the economy with it's miasma of rules.

Trump is seeking to repeal the Clean Power Plan which limited the use of coal fired power stations because of the amount of carbon dioxide they released into the atmosphere. The Environmental Protection Agency estimated that this would reduce carbon dioxide pollution from the energy sector by 32% below 2005 levels by 2030. Environmental campaigners and democrats were highly supportive of the bill.

However, critics accused the Obama administration of a "war on coal" and warned that electricity prices will rise by so much that people will not even be able to surf the internet. Thomas J Donohue, the current president of the US Chamber of Commerce, said the EPA plan was a "power grab" that will "drive up electricity costs for businesses, consumers and families, impose tens of billions in annual compliance costs, and reduce our nation’s global competitiveness" 

Trumps head of the EPA Scott Pruitt, a former Oklahoma attorney general who questioned accepted climate science said "The president is keeping his promise to the American people,". Pruitt also denounced the Paris climate accord as a “bad deal” and said Obama-era standards on auto emissions were "counter-helpful to the environment".

Ah Donald Trump and the Republican Party,  here we go again..........

London's deaths are a tragedy, but there is far worse happening in the World

On the 22nd March 2017, Khalid Masood drove a vehicle at high speeds across Westminster Bridge, knocking down several people and killing some of them in the process. The vehicle proceeded to hit the railings outside Westminster and the driver exited, brandishing a knife and stabbing police officer Keith Palmer. Masood was shot dead by armed police seconds later, but 5 people including Keith Palmer died of their injuries. Islamic State took credit for the attack and outpourings of support have been sent to London.

It was an attack by a crazy jihadist who had a history of violence but I can't help have this feeling that there has been an over-exaggeration of the gravity of this attack. People have been on the news, bellowing in defiance of the terrorist actions. For an example, just watch Andrew Neil's denouncement of Islamic State from Newsnight a few days ago. However to me, this seems a case best explained by Josef Stalin :

"One death is a tragedy, a million is just a statistic"