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.

Yes, Human Activity, in its Current State, Is Unsustainable

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.

Will the U.S. Top Military Intervene Before Trump Inflicts Irreparable Damage