At left is a good topic for a lively discussion. Two comments:
1) One presumes we’re talking about Americans here, even though our population is about 4% of the Earth’s total. At this point in the U.S. decline into some form of oligarchy, the rest of the world has little to lose if Trump ultimately succeeds in turning the United States into something like Russia: a couple hundred million people, living in a country with a handful of billionaires, most of rest of whom are unhealthy, ignorant, poor, and hopeless.
2) Climate change, by contrast, doesn’t go out of its way to target Americans. Like the dominion of Trump, however, it does inflict its pain disproportionately on the poor. Rich people in each of the 200+ sovereign countries on the planet will continue to experience minimal harm due to the effects of global warming. As bad as things are likely to get on this planet for the many, there will always be good things available to those who can afford them: Ivy League educations, fancy cars, fabulous real estate in what remains of the world’s habitable regions, the planet’s most attractive sex partners, and fine steak dinners.
For most of our lives, many of us boomers have believed that the biggest threat to the United States was our president, starting with Tricky Dick Nixon, the inventor of the “trickle-down economics,” liar Ronald Reagan, and GW (the moron) Bush.
But yes, none of us was prepared for the cold, calculating criminal who is Donald Trump.
There Were Prior Threats to the Nation Stemming from the White House
The fact that human activity is unsustainable has been revealed to us gradually over the last century. Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” was published 63 years ago.
That said, the ideas of climate change, ocean acidification, and loss of biodiversity have been essentially unchallenged by scientists for just the last couple of decades.
The only thing standing in the way of rapid environmental progress is greed, and in the end, that may prove to be an unbeatable foe. Decarbonizing our grid and transportation sector will eventually destroy the fossil fuel industry, a group so powerful that it has a stranglehold, both on our lawmakers and on our corporate-owned media, that works so hard to misinform our citizenry.
It’s still possible that our most senior military leaders will insert themselves in time to prevent some truly catastrophic event here in the United States/abroad.
I keep thinking I’ll read about an exchange like this:
Trump: We’re invading Greenland.
Some four-star general: The f*** we are.
This may sound like a pipe dream, but these are people of real honor and integrity who take their oaths to our constitution quite seriously.
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