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A demonstrator dressed as a polar bear joins others gather infront of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 28, 2017, during a rally against President Donald Trump's Energy Independence Executive order.

(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Trump's latest executive order -- the one I call his "road to hell" -- is paved with campaign promises for jobs on a bed of lies. The lies: climate change is a hoax, we are surpassing our goals to decrease CO2, something called "clean coal" exists, fracked gas is the new fuel, and energy independence is achieved by exporting our last fossil fuels. None of these are true.

Science proves climate change is real. CO2 levels continue to rise. All coal creates more CO2. Fracked gas is dirty natural gas and both emit methane, trapping heat in the earth's atmosphere. The best way to energy independence is to use renewable solar, wave and wind.

We all like the promise of jobs. Most of us want good-paying jobs close to home. The young man who inspected my roof for solar panels is paid $104,000 per year. We can replace a coal mine with renewable energy. Who wants to move their family to a fracking boom town?

Trump's backward vision on energy sends the country and the world down a road to a dangerously warmer climate with polluted air, unpredictable and devastating storms, failed crops and more immigrants as people have to move from uninhabitable areas.

Jane Stackhouse, Northeast Portland