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It is reversing a ban on oil and gas drilling, and is proposing a “fast-track” for big projects, including mines, that bypasses environmental checks. It has cut climate programs and jobs, scrapped electric vehicle subsidies, abandoned plans for one of the world’s largest marine sanctuaries and set aside a world-leading cow “burp” tax as it questions the science on methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

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Is no place on earth safe of them? 🤢

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The greed will continue until ecological collapse.

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Yes, probably it will.

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Based on what I’ve seen, I expect it will continue until well past collapse too.

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Where it will blame the left for all the damage the right did.

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That’s not the only way it might go.

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