Being Green - 02 February 2018

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It’s A Puzzling World…

Greetings. I’d like to illustrate what a puzzling world we inhabit. And have some fun too of course. President Trump got a few grudging approvals in his State of the Union speech, so it’s not all negative for him. He certainly didn’t get approval from the sustainable energy lobby though when he threw the Federal Renewable Energy Office’s budget under the bus and reduced it by over 70 percent. And he praised good ‘ol coal, not surprising since the coal lobby and the depressed coal-mining industry support him and they get more jobs. And we all know what he did about the Climate Change Agreement.
2 Feb 2018 English South Africa Health & Fitness

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