All On Board In Paris, Except Republicans

JUST THE OTHER DAY the air pollution in Beijing got worse than ever before, the alert at its highest level, twenty million people unable to go outside without gas masks. This was not a hoax being perpetrated by American liberals, it was the real thing, real bad air pollution, of the sort China is experiencing in cascadingly increasing amounts. But the good news is: the Chinese believe in global warming, as does everyone with a brain, and they are plunging headlong into solar energy, which can save us all, and just recently, into electric cars. Meanwhile, they are going full ahead with fossil fuels, because economic growth to the Chinese is a religion, like it is in the United States. Even the growth happy Chinese understand that humanity must transition away from fossil fuels, must leave most of the rest of it in the ground... ...therefore, if we the sane can find some way to talk American conservative Republicans into accepting reality, then everyone in the world will be on board, and we can all proceed together into a brighter, cleaner future for our descendants. it looks like Hillary Clinton will be America's next president, and she believes in climate change, aka global warming. The republicans will evidently nominate someone who does not believe in climate change, since none of them do, and the American electorate probably will not be willing to put up with that. Most Americans accept the reality of climate change, although nearly a third do not. It may be necessary to let all American conservatives wear guns and dig up some more fossil fuel to lure them into helping the rest of us save the planet. Its worth a try.