Are you breathing too much mercury, Mr Trump?

On the EN125 road of the Algarve, just the right at the roundabout of Vila Nova de Cacela, you find a sign with the following message: Não há Planeta B.

Of course, as Mr Trump doesn´t go there he hasn´t had the opportunity to read it. Or maybe yes and that's why he wants to advance the entire American space program a few years before.

As I understand it, the idea of placing a station on the Moon and from there arriving on Mars was a plan that was planned for 2028 or 2030, but our boy, after taking out a postcard of Cacela Velha, went through the aforementioned roundabout had the great idea to perform the prodigy before the end of his next term, because, yes, I'm sure he will be re-elected again.

For that he has at his disposal his crew. There are the Scott Pruitt, Steve Bannon, Lamar Smith and a great cast of Governors and Attorney Generals.

Because for the president of the Americans, the Earth is a disposable planet and he´s in a hurry to colonize — as in the Far West — the closest space, the Moon, Mars ... We already know: the first one that comes in nails its stake (or flag) on the ground and the satellite and planet (B) already have an owner.

You will wonder how he will get it. I will give you the hand programme.

The president will address his people and tell them: the first thing we have to know is that we are here to earn money and everything else is secondary. So he will appoint Mr Pruitt responsible for the EPA (this is how to put the fox in the care of chickens) because everyone knows the ‘close relationship’ with the fossil fuel industry this chap has.

According to Trump, another denialist like him could use the House of Representatives Science committee. Lamar Smith would look great here.

The voice of an authority on the matter such as Tom Burke (former advisor during the Obama administration) does not matter: ‘The EPA's mission is to protect the environment and the health of the population, not the benefits of companies.’

Since he came to power Mr Fringe has done and undone at will.

The concept of global warming was a thing invented by the Chinese, who are jealous of us and wanted to curb the competitiveness of American industry it was heard more than once. Adding also that his goodbye to Paris was to defend the employment of his workers.

To this man, who is already on the Moon, there is no one to stop him.

For greater legal certainty, farmers and industries can continue to dump their waste into river waters. Rivers overflowing with cadmium, copper, lead, mercury and zinc. The emission of methane from more than 15,000 oil and gas operations won´t be taken into account…

Even within the Republican Party some people stand up against this way of acting, so Christine Todd Whitman (also worked at the EPA) complains that they are 'underestimating scientific findings and the respect for the population towards science.'

But our cowboy wants to get to Mars soon and he doesn't give a damn what is going on with THIS planet. You´re the dog´s bollocks.

Meanwhile, the brinkmanship, the great manipulator, machines at medium distance and gives approval taps on the back of the most powerful. Far-right stalks.

From my Borstal.

LDR