You are wrong to do this. Dreadfully wrong. Why are you so dead set on killing people and causing needless suffering?
I worked in power plants for 20 years. When I was 27 I was, I believe, the first female power plant manager in the state of Texas. A year later I was the first pregnant power plant manager on the planet, I’m pretty sure.
I ran fossil fuel plants, including coal burning plants. I worked with awesome people. They were the best people.
I made really good money when I worked in the power industry. Real good. But it wasn’t good enough to put up or shut up. I wasn’t cool with having to go, with really high priced lawyers in tow, to meetings with legislators and attorneys general to explain to them why they should let us keep polluting. I squirmed that my company was willing to spend $10k for me to go to an eight person dinner with the governor of my state (not Texas, this was later after I’d climbed a few more rungs of the ladder) to convince him that we shouldn’t have to put pollution controls on our coal burning power stations. I went and I did it, but there was something wrong with that.
It’s not that I didn’t believe in what we did and the people that were doing it. Making electricity is a thing that improves people’s lives. It’s a hard thing to do, and working hard to do a hard thing to improve people’s lives is awesome. But things got weird, as the whole Enron deal exemplifies, with the focus of the industry turning to profits before people instead of how to better provide electricity, a really life improving thing, to people in ways that were less toxic and more affordable and accessible.
Anyway, I won’t get into any more details right now. It’s a long story, but to make it short, my view of what is good and right and beautiful did not jibe with my industry’s view of what would make them fat and happy and obscenely rich and stuff.
I think they were short sighted. They think I was a nuisance.
All that being said, Mr. Trump, if you sign that executive order today that effectively nullifies the Paris Agreement, you will kill some of people you’re claiming to be creating jobs for and make even more of them suffer without creating anything for them. What a creepy man you are. I despise everything you’re doing, and especially this. The people who make electricity for this country deserve far better than you can deliver.