, ' as diagnosed in the conservative media ] Trump has a bad habit of reviving negative stories through his own antics . He seemingly put the ugly Megyn Kelly feud behind him in May and weathered criticism for mocking a reporter with a physical disability last fall , then needlessly re - litigated both controversies during a news conference in July .
Locals in the villages around Usinsk complain that the frequent oil spills pollute their drinking water , contaminate the river fish and reindeer they depend on for food and cause chronic health conditions . Statistics obtained in 2010 by local activists from the hospital in Ust - Usa , a village of 1,300 on the Pechora river that has suffered from many of the large spills , showed rises in almost every kind of illness . Nervous system illnesseslife.injure.illnessdegradationphysicalin adults , for instance , grew from 26 in 1995 to 70 in 2009 . In patients under 18 years of age , they skyrocketed from 72 to 254 . Spokesman Sergei Makarov said Lukoil - Komi was investing 20bn roubles ( £ 230 m ) in environmental measures and would change 370 km of old pipeline in 2016 , out of a 7,000km - long pipeline network in the region .
As a doctor you would n’t just throw a diagnosis at people without a treatment plan . The ‘ catastrophism ’ charge is just dumb . You can not fight life - threatening illnesseslife.injure.illnessdegradationphysicalor life - threatening environmental problems or militarism or the rest unless you ’re clear about both the extent of the problem and how to fix it . ” A key thing “ left ” critics of “ catastrophism ” fail to appreciate , Stein added , is that climate change is “ eminently fixable . ” Affordable technologies and methods for a sustainable , zero - carbon renewable economy are now in place . The real problem is political -- the “ corporate stranglehold ” and “ oligarchy ” that we can break by going beyond the self - fulfilling “ politics of fear ” to form a great independent social and political movement for transformative social , political , economic , and environmental justice .