Do you enjoy drinking unpolluted water? What about breathing clean air? I’ve certainly indulged myself in a little respiration of oxygen into carbon dioxide from time to time. I particularly enjoy living on this planet, and I suspect quite a few of you feel the same.

But there’s this one tiny group of, let’s call them “people,” in Washington who either 1) have a secret escape pod to Mars ready to go or, more likely, 2) are genuinely incapable of experiencing empathy for living things.

President Trump’s budget proposal is a death sentence for American discovery and ingenuity in the scientific community.

RELATED: Science is enemy No. 1 of the Trump administration

There’s so much packed into this budget which harms huge swaths of this country, from the poor to the arts to the sciences.  In this article, I’m going to focus on some of the scientific missions that Trump wants completely eliminated from the federal budget.

On the proposed chopping block is America’s ability to do science. Specifically, more than 50 programs from the Environmental Protection Agency are cut, with special attention given to all that pesky climate change science that keeps getting in the way of Trump’s fake reality.

Chesapeake Bay cleanup

In 2010, the watershed states affected by poor water quality in the Chesapeake Bay area agreed to take steps to clean up the region. Chemical runoff from nearby farms and cities was cited as the culprit for dirtying the water where an estimated 18 million people call home.

Trump’s budget would remove all $73 million the program receives annually from the government, essentially killing the project.

Ironically, one of the states affected by poor water quality, West Virginia, voted overwhelmingly for Trump in the 2016 election. But hey, maybe the president can send them some Trump-brand water bottles for their trouble.

Programs focused on understanding climate change

• PACE, which monitors the health of the world’s oceans
• Orbiting Carbon Observatory – 3, a mission that measures CO2 levels in the atmosphere
• Deep Space Climate Observatory, which monitors solar wind levels for NOAA
•  CLARREO, a project that retains climate records to help inform policy decisions

So basically just the stuff that helps keep life flourishing on Earth.

Clean Power Plan

Largely considered to be former President Obama’s signature legislation on climate change, the Clean Power Plan limited the amount of carbon dioxide power plants could release into the atmosphere. It also ensured that climate change policy was factored into federal agency decision-making.

As for the Environmental Protection Agency as a whole, it’s estimated that Trump’s budget would cut 3,200 jobs, or about 20 percent of the agency’s workforce.

“You can’t drain the swamp and leave all the people in it. So, I guess the first place that comes to mind will be the Environmental Protection Agency,” said Mick Mulvaney, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.

So I suppose Trump’s all about job creation, unless of course, you’re some sort of intellectual with all those annoying facts and evidence and proof. As I’ve said before, science is the enemy of an autocratic regime, so naturally the Trump team is highly motivated to deny scientific data, marginalize scientists and complicate their ability to share information with the public.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

The silver lining in this proposed budget is essentially a Trump wish list. It has to be approved by Congress before going into effect. So, if you’d like this country to continue doing science for the sake of our planet, it’s time to get Congress on the phone.

Contact your congressional representatives (House and Senate)

Tips on what to say when calling Congress

Follow Shari Rose on Twitter