There's really no question that the Trump
administration has proven itself to be one
of the most anti-science presidential administrations,
at least in a generation.
Now yes, I know that George W. Bush and his
crew were very anti-science, but at least
they actually acknowledged that climate change
was real.
Well, they didn't evolution taught, they didn't
want women to have reproductive health freedom,
but they did acknowledge climate change, which
puts them a tiny step above where the Trump
administration is at because they don't believe
in climate change.
They don't believe in women having a say over
their reproductive health, which yes, falls
under the category of science, and they don't
believe in evolution.
They don't believe it should be taught.
If they believe in it, that's not something
we necessarily know, but they do not believe
it should be taught, and the same goes for
most Republicans in Washington, D.C.
Nonetheless, Bill Nye the Science Guy did
an interview with Time Magazine recently where
he said that he believes, he has hope that
science will survive the Trump administration
and that he sees more hope in the younger
generations who do accept science, who do
understand that evolution happened, and that
climate change is happening.
Bill Nye says we need to have hope, and it's
a good message.
But unfortunately, it's not necessarily a
message that I'm willing to get behind at
this point.
I want to have hope, I wish I did.
But when you understand, when you see the
damage that gets caused in just four short
years from denying the existence of science,
what happens when we have a kid in second
grade who has to go four, or potentially eight
years through their education of learning
that evolution didn't happen, and instead,
we were all created by a big guy up in the
sky.
Eight years, those thoughts, those beliefs
get indoctrinated into children, and it shapes
their entire life.
Same thing goes with climate change.
When we have an administration that not only
denies its existence and teaches that to other
people who then go on to believe it, but the
damage that gets caused as a result of the
inaction.
That can't be undone.
Rising sea levels?
Yeah, we can't just drain the sea and make
those sea levels go back down.
The areas of California that are being burnt,
they'll grow back in a few decades.
We can't fix that with the next administration.
Science will survive, I do understand that.
I understand where Bill Nye's coming from,
and I understand what he's saying, and I appreciate
it, and he's just more hopeful than I am,
and I wish I could share his enthusiasm and
his hope in what he sees in a younger generation,
but right now, what I see is a generation
of Republican lawmakers trying to teach our
children that science isn't real, that you
need to believe in Republican lawmakers and
a deity that you cannot see, and you may or
may not even believe in.
Put your faith in those, not your faith in
textbooks.
Don't worry about those Liberal elites at
those colleges that teach you this nonsense.
Trust us, but more importantly, trust the
talking points that we're giving you from
the religious right and the fossil fuel industry,
because that's all that matters, and that
is what they are trying to teach our children.
Science will live on, and eventually we'll
live in a society, I hope, that accepts science,
that stops having such an antagonistic attitude
towards science and scientists.
But I don't see it happening any time in the
next four years, I don't see it happening
in the next 10 years.
I don't even think it'll happen in the next
50 years.
It'll happen when science comes and slaps
us back in the face because we've been ignoring
it for so long that we suddenly have very
real, dire issues to start dealing with.
I wish I could be as optimistic as Bill Nye,
but from what I've seen from Republicans,
it's very hard to be optimistic these days.
