Thousands Across The U.S. And The Globe March For Science In Defiance Of Donald Trump

President Donald Trump clearly doesn’t care much for science. He’s proposed to slash budgets for programs including the Environmental Protection Agency and NASA. He wants to cut $900 million to the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. He ordered the National Park Service to stop tweeting. He’s called climate change a “hoax” and doesn’t trust vaccines. Saturday marks the 47th Earth Day, and thousands of scientists and non-scientists alike are marching in solidarity around the country and beyond to send a clear message to Trump: Science isn’t going anywhere. Scientists organized the March for Science, and encouraged other “scientists, educators, and advocates, as well as social service workers, artists, trade workers, business people, our elderly population, and families to come together for science.”  Some of the biggest marches in the U.S. were taking place in New York City and Washington, D.C. The #marchforscience in DC is drawing a sizable crowd despite a constant, chill drizzle. pic.twitter.com/QM6W39GQXp— Alexander Kaufman (@AlexCKaufman) April 22, 2017 omg #marchforscience pic.twitter.com/mo8sRb7646— Sarah Emerson (@SarahNEmerson) April 22, 2017 Leland Melvin, a NASA astronaut who attended the march in D.C., recalled looking down on Earth from space in 2009. “I’m a scientist, I’m an engineer, I’ve seen the planet from the vantage point of ...
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