The Geeky Eco Warrior

Trump administration passing a law for preventing animal cruelty while watering down the US Endangered Species Act is downright hypocrisy. US President Donald Trump gave American animal lovers an advance gift for Thanksgiving this year. Trump signed a  new law  that makes cruelty to animals a federal crime that could attract a penalty of seven years imprisonment and/or a heavy fine. The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act was signed on November 25, 2019, and bans the intentional crushing, burning, drowning, suffocating, impalement or other serious harm to "living non-human mammals, birds, reptiles, or amphibians." The law also bans "animal crush videos" i.e. any photograph, motion picture film, video or digital recording or electronic image that depicts animal cruelty. Good news, indeed. Animal rights advocates across the US have welcomed the passage of the first such national law. Marty Irby, executive director of Animal Wellness Action, a Washington, ...

As you keep denying data and science, President Trump, air pollution is choking your electorate. Dear President Trump, Greetings from the  most polluted capital of the world .  This is regarding the statement you made in a  conversation with Prime Minister Varadkar of Ireland  in Shannon in June this year. You had said, "We have the cleanest air in the world, in the United States, and it’s gotten better since I’m President." Sorry to break your little bubble, President Trump, but nothing could be further from the truth. In your country, the air quality is worse in the past two years than it has been in the past — just a few years prior. The past, in fact, saw your country vastly improving the air quality from the earlier deteriorations. And by past, we mean before you took oath as the President in 2017. Air pollution kills, sir. Ask us Indians —  specifically Delhiites  — and we can tell you in volumes about how it feels to be breathing the t...