RESISTANCE
Badlands National Park Defies Trump
Badlands National Park on Tuesday defied orders from President Donald Trump for all Department of Interior bureaus to “immediately cease use of government Twitter accounts,” by tweeting about climate change.
The new administration instituted the media blackout after the National Parks Service account re-tweeted several anti-Trump messages during his inauguration (they removed the tweets and apologized).
On Tuesday, as news came that Trump had also ordered a media blackout on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Badlands, located in southeastern South Dakota, began posting a series of messages quoting from the National Wildlife Federation’s guide on climate change.
“Today, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher than at any time in the last 650,000 years. #climate,” read the first tweet. “The pre-industrial concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was 280 parts per million (ppm).
As of December 2016, 404.93 ppm,” read the second, followed by a third: “Flipside of the atmosphere; ocean acidity has increased 30% since the Industrial Revolution. "Ocean Acidification" #climate #carboncycle.”
President Trump has long labeled climate change a “hoax”—at one point joking that it was a concept created by the Chinese to weaken American manufacturing.
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