When Honest People Resign, Who’s Left?

We come across this a lot, i.e., the mass resignation of honest people in government positions when they are faced with extraordinary levels of corruption and other untenable positions.  As the senator from Connecticut points out, this is a double-edged sword. We applaud their integrity, but we need to deal with the fact that the only people remaining are the bad apples.

This happens constantly in the parts of government that deal with energy and the environment.  Many dozens of our top scientists in the Department of Energy and the EPA have resigned their positions since Donald Trump came on the scene, and right-wing politics have made it impossible for them to carry on with their duties.  Whom does this leave?  Climate deniers and others who reject (or don’t understand) basic science.