170 million Americans are under heat warnings due to temperatures exceeding 100 degrees Fahrenheit, indicating a direct link to global warming, similar to previous climate-related extremes like floods and hurricanes. The Trump administration's efforts to reverse decades of environmental progress have met limited public outcry despite the gravity of unfolding issues. The environmental initiatives from the 1970s laid foundational regulations, but currently, the urgency to address climate change has not mobilized protests like those against other political issues, even as its impacts are occurring more rapidly and destructively than previously predicted.
Climate change is inflicting far higher costs on Americans at a far faster pace than experts predicted back when the public started clamoring for action on global warming.
In the early 1990s, environmental awareness had become an American value, with significant legislation like the Clean Air and Clean Water acts being passed.
The Trump administration seems to be trying to roll back or reverse every environmental initiative of the past 55 years, yet there hasn't been major protest.
On June 14, several million people took to the streets in the No Kings protests against Trump's assault on the Constitution, showing that Americans can mobilize on issues of importance.
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