Thigh-High Politics is an op-ed column by Teen Vogue writer Lauren Duca that breaks down the news, provides resources for the resistance, and just generally refuses to accept toxic nonsense.

On Tuesday, the president signed an executive order revoking environmental regulations enacted by the Obama administration. Stephen Colbert likened the measure to “repealing the environment” on The Late Show, and that’s only kind of a joke. Reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is in the best interest of anyone who respects the earth even a little more than the porta-john at a music festival. To be against environmental regulation in 2017 is to be anti-environment.

Trump’s kneecapped climate change policy is enabled by a toxic partisanship that has overpowered the significance of literal science. Make no mistake: There is no legitimate debate around the man-made effect on climate change other than the question of its severity. The fallout will either be bad or worse, and the longer we continue contorting ourselves into dialogue driven by feelings over logic, the harsher the conditions our children and grandchildren will be forced to adapt to.

To be clear, Trump can’t save us from the impact of global warming. Neither could Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders. Even Obama’s policies left him with a lawsuit from kids demanding federal action on climate change. Much of the damage cannot be undone, but doing nothing only guarantees things will get worse.

“We will have to adjust to a new normal no matter what, but we have to adapt and mitigate and prevent further greenhouse-gas emissions,” Gail Carlson, an assistant professor of environmental studies at Colby College, told me this week. “I have no doubt that Donald Trump is on the wrong side of history,” she continued. “The environment cannot wait.”

Global warming doesn’t go away because the president of the United States once claimed that it is a hoax. Some see it as chipping away at the cooperative power of the global order. Trump’s refutation of climate change is in direct conflict with science, not to mention the belief of half of Americans, according to a recent Gallup poll. That is a truth that transcends the political. Progressives aren’t Tinkerbell-clapping the greenhouse effect into existence. Scientific consensus confirms that man-made climate change is real, and it will destroy the planet, if we do nothing.

Let this 2009 statement from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the Ecological Society of America, and 15 other scientific organizations be the final receipt on the matter: