> ...we shouldn't be surprised when regulations are changed by the caprice of the Executive, as they did with both Obama and now Trump. You're right about that

> ...we shouldn't be surprised when regulations are changed by the caprice of the Executive, as they did with both Obama and now Trump. You're right about that. But to be fair, Obama issued a bunch of executive orders because he literally got ZERO cooperation from republicans in his second term. These orders are reversible but it's all he had to work with. I can appreciate that. In the global long term, I don't think we can rely on nation-states to do right by the environment. The only way we will learn and, if we're lucky, adapt, is when things become drastic and horrifying.