Trump+White+House+axes+Nasa+research+into+greenhouse+gas+cuts

May 10, 2018 link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44067797

This article was about Trump and his staff cutting the funding into the attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. US officials are in Germany as of one hour ago, in order to talk about an outline about a rule book for the Paris Agreement. In this book, officials are pushing on strong enforcement on laws to report and monitor greenhouse gas emissions. Trump infamously continued to threaten NASA to cut the earth science budget as well as anything that had to do with climate change or the atmosphere. About two months ago, a deal was signed by US congress to end research of CMS, which basically killed any chance of research into climate change in the US.

This relates to the curriculum because the last unit we learned about was Climate change. We also talked about the Paris Agreement, which is a very important topic in the discussion that occurred between Trump and NASA. To be more specific, the article was about greenhouse emission cuts, which will eventually lead to more ignorance about global warming, making the problem worse, similar to a positive feedback loop.

I think that what Trump is doing is incredibly stupid. Doing this has no benefits whatsoever and only harms our environment and us. If people continue to feed into each other's ignorance, nothing is going to change. I actually think that we should be spending more efforts in creating a solution to this devastating problem, rather than ignoring it simply because it is too complex of a topic for our president to understand.