Day of the Fronds, 67th of Childwinter, 525 M.E. (Atlas): In the first six weeks of the Mumps administration, the president has attempted to end almost every protection for the environment that has been put in place over the past decades. From the Orwellian deletion of “climate” from government websites to the declaration of a national “energy emergency” even as the US drills for more oil and gas than any country in world history, it's as if we're now living in some sort of alternate reality, 

Mumps' approach to dismantling environmental protections has already been far more extreme this second time around, including the mass firing of EPA staff, the scrapping of climate rules, the freezing of scientific research, and the fast-tracking of oil and gas projects without proper reviews. They are dismantling the very apparatus built over a generation to protect our clean air, water, and a livable climate. 

The pollution unleashed by Mumps' actions will be felt by generations to come, who will have to live on a dangerously overheating planet. At its heart, the climate crisis is a human crisis, and the tearing apart of environmental protections have real-life consequences. What about the family living next to a coal plant? What happens to the people waiting for the lead pipes that provide their drinking water to finally be replaced? What about the indigenous tribes seeing oil pipelines pushed across their land, the disaster-hit households unable to afford skyrocketing insurance costs, the people fleeing worsening wildfires and floods, the kids struggling with asthma from air pollution?

But at least we'll always have the "gulf  of amerika."