If you making a case for the next democratic congress to make these places permanently protected by making them National Parks, I am with you.
But still it doesn't seem Trump wants to make America Great again, or even leave a living legacy, he just wants to make deals for his big donars.
Trump’s chilling contempt for future generations
One way the American people get a glimpse into how American presidents see who we are as a nation — and, importantly, who they want us to be — is how they act as stewards of our country’s vast natural resources.
President Theodore Roosevelt preserved the Grand Canyon because in the rugged chasms carved by the Colorado River, he saw a landscape that echoed and nourished the wild character of a growing nation.
In creating the largest marine protected area in the world at the time — Papahanaumokuakea in the northwest Hawaiian Islands —
President George W. Bush spoke of a moral call to conservation and a “duty to be good stewards of the Almighty’s creation.”
But where earlier presidents have shown respect for our past and commitment to our future, President Trump is displaying a stinginess of mind, a hollowness of spirit and a contempt for future generations.
Trump lashed out at communities — including
Baltimore and
Charlottesville — that have decided to remove 20th-century monuments erected to glorify the Confederacy, monuments that white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis are fighting with deadly force to preserve.
“Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments,”
Trump wrote on Twitter.
But this week, the president made clear that “history and culture” worth protecting do not include the archeological sites that are sacred to Native Americans, the mountains where Geronimo and Billy the Kid took refuge, or the ocean canyons and coral reefs that are haunted by sharks and shipwrecks.
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