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Monday, January 30th, 2017

Trump’s America, where even park employees have become enemies of the state

Author:     Sarah Kendzior
Source:     The Guardian (U.K.)
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Link: Trump’s America, where even park employees have become enemies of the state
Stephan:   This is what we look like from England. This and the German article are some of the politer things I have read in the foreign press, and this trend  of incompetent nativist governance is going to bear bitter fruit.

The Redwall section of the Grand Canyon National Park.
Credit: Alamy

Last Tuesday, for a few hours, Badlands National Park defied presidential orders. “Today, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher than at any time in the last 650,000 years #climate,” it tweeted. The account went on to discuss ocean acidity, carbon dioxide and the founding mission of the century-old National Parks Service, which included an obligation to “leave [the parks] unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations”.

In Trump’s America, where national parks are forbidden from communicating through Twitter, this constitutes an act of radical subversion. This is not the America I was living in a week ago.

Following a pitiful inaugural turnout, Trump, the most unpopular president ever to take office, issued an unprecedented order, stating that US institutions including the National Parks Service, the Department of Agriculture, and the Environmental Protection Agency were forbidden to independently communicate to the public.

The diktat was in part a reaction to tweeted photographs showing the discrepancy between the massive crowds […]

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