Even though the Earth Day “March for Science” was primarily
aimed at the Trump Administration’s suppression of scientific research results,
has America’s political and religious persecution of science finally reached a
tipping point?
By: Ringo Bones
If you asked me, I wish that this year’s March for Science
that coincided with this year’s April 22 Earth Day festivities should have been
started back in 1996 to mark the moment that America’s radical right-wing
Evangelical Christians started interfering scientific results of the National
Academy of Science – especially ones that concern women’s health, climate
change and environmental pollution. Fat forward to the election of Donald J.
Trump into the U.S. presidency thanks to his “rhetoric” proclaiming that
climate change is a hoax invented by The People’s Republic of China to help
make them sell wind turbines and photovoltaic solar panels, not to mention
Trump signing an executive order to undo any Obama Administration era Clean
Energy and Security programs, many observant Christians finally reached the
point of “Holy Jesus Hitler Christ, enough is enough” to have decided on this
year’s Earth Day to march into Washington as a show of unity that Donald J.
Trump’s Alternative Facts is no solution to global warming and sea level rise
brought about by climate change due to man-made greenhouse gas emissions from
industrial activity.
Similar marches also happened around the world largely
inspired by the march on Washington D.C. At a demonstration in Washington D.C.,
Dr. Jonathan Foley, the executive director of the California Academy of
Sciences, said that research was being irrationally questioned, adding that
attacks from politicians – especially from the U.S. Republican Party –
“amounted to oppression”. According to Dr. Foley, skeptical politicians in DC
are specifically targeting science that protects our health – especially
women’s health – our safety and the environment. “Science that protects the
most vulnerable among us”, Foley said. In short, everyone the world over
protested on this year’s Earth Day against what they consider to be an
“alarming trend” among politicians for discrediting their research.
