Fountain, Henry, and Erica Goode. "Trump Has Options for Undoing Obama’s Climate Legacy." The New
York Times. The New York Times, 25 Nov. 2016. Web. 28 Nov. 2016. <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/science/donald-trump-obama-climate.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=9&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0>.
The article that I read for this current event talks about Donald Trump’s plans to undue all of the environmental laws and regulations put in place in the past decades. The author of the article states that Trump plans to get rid of the Clean Power Plan, which regulates the emissions from power plants. Donald Trump believes that climate change is a hoax, although he now claims that he sees how it could be possible, and has also made remarks towards pulling out of the Paris climate accord. It will be challenging for Trump to undo some things like withdrawing from the Paris accord, but others will be easy to undo such as the United Nations- backed program to reduce the environmental impact on international air travel, which will not be put in place until the year 2020. It is unclear whether Trump will actually do the things that he said he will, but many people who are part of his transitional team are known non believers in climate change.
This will obviously have a huge impact on society if Trump does follow through with his plans to undo all of these regulations and future plans to tackle this issue of climate change. There is so much evidence of our effect on the climate and if all of these regulations are taken out of the picture, it is likely that climate change will increase rapidly and be detrimental to our world even sooner than expected. We should be moving in the direction of creating more regulation instead of getting rid of regulation.
Fountain, Henry, and Erica Goode. "Trump Has Options for Undoing Obama’s Climate Legacy." The New
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I read Sophia’s review of the article "Trump Has Options for Undoing Obama’s Climate Legacy." I enjoyed reading her review for three reasons. The first reason was that she chose a topic that is extremely relevant to our lives right now. Secondly, she did a good job summarizing the article in a clear and concise way. Finally, I liked how she explained how easy/hard it would be to undue some of Obama’s plans.
Although Sophia did a good job writing her review, she could have improved on two things. The first thing that she could have improved on would be explaining how hard it would be for him to pull out of the Clean Climate Act. I feel that should she have done this is would have provided some very fascinating information. Finally, she could have quoted from the article which would have elevated her review.
Overall, her review was very interesting to read because it was on a topic that is very relevant in our lives today. Donald Trump is always interesting to talk about and debate and this review did a very good job of providing factual evidence of what his plans could do. Before reading this article, I already knew a fair bit about his policies and after reading it I learned a little bit more.