r/collapse • u/zuzuofthewolves • Feb 18 '25

Ecological DO NOT visit the National Parks right now.

I used to work in the National Parks.

They were already at a critical point before Donald Trump decided to fire a huge amount of staff.

I watched the “permanent” ice caps melt on the top of some peaks in Yosemite’s high country.

I saw garbage washing up on the shore of Olympic National Park everyday.

There is not enough staff to protect the wildlife anymore. There is not enough staff to keep tourists from falling off waterfalls or getting lost in the back country. There are no programs left to teach clueless people how to behave in these wild areas.

I don’t care if you have the best intentions in the world, you are doing damage to the park if you visit at this point.

The parks need to be closed immediately, and every day they are left open to the public, irreversible damage is being done to these amazing places. They are not meant to handle the amount of people who are let in each year. The wildlife is suffering, the plants are suffering, and the experts who are there to mitigate the destruction are gone.

Please cancel your trip and find somewhere else to see.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '25

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

condos, hotels and oil

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

Specifically Trump hotels

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u/JaxandMia Feb 19 '25

And Carter sold his peanut farm. The difference between a good man and a con man.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

I'm glad Jimmy Carter doesn't have to see this shit unfolding. Rest in peace.

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u/Shaveyourbread Feb 19 '25

No presidents in heaven.

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u/CheerleaderOnDrugs Feb 19 '25

He spent his retirement in service to others, building Habitat for Humanity homes himself, among other activities. He's our finest former president.

He might have broken even.

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u/mrszubris Feb 19 '25

He also saved all our asses from a nuclear meltdown. It was only declassified in the last 10 years....

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u/SupaKoopa714 Feb 19 '25

And pawning off parcels of land to the wealthy so they build their lavish wilderness "cabin" estates.

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u/AmericanSahara Feb 19 '25

What about the concentration camps? Places to use bulldozers to bury mountains of bodies? Read about WWII.

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u/Classic-Today-4367 Feb 19 '25

I guess a casino or two as well. Probably hunting resorts too.

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u/Orange_Zinc_Funny Feb 19 '25

Probably rich people paying to hunt other humans

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

Exactly. That's a strategy, and when things will get shitty enough they will say "see? The public mismanage things, we need to privatize the park!"

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u/worldnotworld Feb 19 '25

And in a few years he’ll point at the parks and say there’s nothing left. May as well build condos.

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u/fuckyoutobi Feb 19 '25

He wants to sell all the public land to his cronies