The tens of thousands of protesters who converged Saturday on Washington and other cities for the People's Climate March confronted a policy landscape that perhaps more than any other has been transformed under President Trump.
Even as marchers were making their signs and plotting their chants on Friday, Trump was delivering another blow, signing an order that could open the California coast and Arctic to new oil and gas drilling.
“It has been a wrecking ball right out of the gate,” said Rep. Jared Huffman of San Rafael, a top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee. “We shouldn’t underestimate the amount of damage that has already been done to the environment by an administration that can’t seem to get almost anything else done.”
- Trump stumbled on healthcare and immigration, but he's been ‘a wrecking ball’ on the environment, LATimes.com, April 29, 2017.
3. Smug figures such as Macron and Merkel like to claim that mass immigration has brought prosperity and vibrancy but the vast, unrelenting foreign influx has been a wrecking ball at the heart of European society.
The numbers are staggering. In 2017 alone 4.7 million people emigrated to the EU, with 1.54 million going to Germany and 631,000 to Britain.
According to Brussels’ own figures, in January 2016 there were 35 million people living in the EU who were born outside its territory.
No less than 17 per cent of Sweden’s population is foreign-born, while the figure for Belgium, at 16.3 per cent, is not much lower.
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