Sad days for the environment

Recent days have been sad for the environment. I cannot see how America could be made great again by resorting to ways that were maybe useful 50 years ago. During those times the prosperity was achieved with fossil fuels but at the cost of air quality. During those days the smogs in American cities were almost like in big Chinese cities today. With all sorts of environmental requirements the situation has now been rectified. Also in China it has been seen that the present situation is intolerable. The conclusion there is that the use of fossil fuels has to be curbed, and new solutions for energy production be developed. Such attitude can develop future solutions, and was also the plan of the present US administration.

However, the new president-elect of USA has just a day or two ago said that nobody knows if climate change is occurring. As the primary figure for EPA he has chosen one of the most prominent climate sceptics of the US, and the secretary of state will be a director of an oil company. This is worrysome for the world, since put together they indicate that the US is not looking to the future, but trying to get the good old days back - including the prominent use of fossil fuels without restrictions. Making America great again (from outside it looks that it is great at present) would, in my opinion, mean that new solutions were developed. They would also be the major possibility for keeping work in America, since new innovations cannot be produced with limited schooling.

So the individual states in USA and the nations in the rest of the world need to look to the future. Regardless of what negative steps for Environment the new (hopefully 4-year) US government will take, the rest of us need to try to take care of the environment in the name of future generations.