This Trump-made disaster will be more deadly than any hurricane

[justaprogressive]

This disaster has me so angry I can barely type straight. Elon Musk and his phony “Department of Government Efficiency” — which isn’t even a real government department, by the way — are systematically destroying the agencies that keep Americans alive when Mother Nature comes calling. And for what? Some twisted ideological experiment that’s going to cost lives.

The National Weather Service (NWS) is falling apart right before hurricane season. They have 155 empty positions that should be filled with forecasters working around the clock to track storms and save lives.

Tom Fahy from the National Weather Service Employees Organization nailed it when he toldThe Washington Post:

“For most of the last half century, NWS has been a 24/7 operation. Not anymore, thanks to Elon Musk.”

Picture this: a Category 4 hurricane spinning up in the Gulf, and the people who should be tracking its every move and warning coastal communities just aren’t there anymore. That’s not some dystopian nightmare: that’s what Donald Trump and Musk have done to us.

Want to know how insane this gets? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) started the year with over 600 vacant positions. Instead of filling those jobs, Trump’s crew — with Musk’s DOGE cheerleading the destruction — illegally fired or pushed out another 10% of the remaining staff. They’re literally making the problem worse.

https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/this-trump-made-disaster-will-be-more-than-any-hurricane/

[usonian]

1. Revisionist definition of efficiency: Eliminating jobs and desroying vital services without actually saving any money.

BRILLIANT.

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[oysterpoint]

3. It is just beginning.

The atmosphere is just beginning to destabilize. The storms, floods, and heat waves that we are seeing worldwide will all continue to increase and become more severe over the course of our lifetimes. It’s already baked in, especially now that the EPA is gutted, no climate leadership from the government, and no check on fossil fuel companies that are free to do whatever they want (again). With a fractured NOAA and NWS, we won’t even see what’s coming. We desperately need to stop the madness, get rid of this regime, and resurrect sane climate policies asap! Rich, poor, red, blue, it doesn’t matter: climate change is here, and it will impact all of us.

[Initech]

4. This is what the fucking idiots get for playing politics with disaster relief.

[LisaL]

5. That's what MAGATs voted for, and that's what

we are going to get. So, thank you MAGATs!

[Blue Full Moon]

6. They are reducing the population on purpose

They believe that will increase their wealth

[Nigrum Cattus]

7. This is all white "christian" nationalism -

It's right there in their right wing project 2025 -
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-what-project-2025-says-about-the-national-weather-service-and-noaa

[czarjak]

8. My geologist neighbor just had to accept a buyout or end up with nothing.

Who needs Then United States Geological Survey anyway? Good luck knowing where it’s safe to build shit or run trains or land planes or…