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Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Trump, Exacerbating Climate Disaster
ONLY IDIOTS deny that climate change is caused by us people. We've had the information for a long time, and now the evidence is all around us, daily. Now, we are all witnessing the change. Climate change deniers are motivated by political ideology; if climate change is real, and human made, then the proressives, horror of horrors, are correct after all, and their vision for our economic and political direction gains validity, unthinkable to conservatives. Meanwhile, every year is hotter than the previous, and its safe to predict that 2026 will be no different. Both polar ice caps are melting, as we have long known, as are the world's glaciers, at what to scientists is a ahocking and alarming rate. Almost everyone is finally aware that climate change is very real, and proceeding at an alarming rate. Within a few years Earth's climate will be drastically different, and far less hospitable for human civilization. Frighteningly, most of us now living will be alive to experience this drastic change. Millions of tons of water from melting glaciers are running into the ocean from Antarctica and Greenland especially, causing sea level to rise rapidly; within a few years coastal cities all over the world will be flooded, going underwater as ocean covers land. We humans have a big job ahead of us, desalinating sea water and moving it from populated areas into deserts and agricultural areas. The current U.S. president, acting more like an authoritarian fascist dictator than an actual president, asserts that the United States should "annex' Greenland, Iceland, and Canada, none of whom have the slightest interest in the idea, unsurprisingly. Over the next few decades all three are likely to become productive agricultural centers and rapidly growing economies, as their climates warm and the ice, snow, and glaciers retreat. Greenland and Iceland should trade names. Iceland is much greener than Greenland, and Greenland is much icier than Iceland. Too late to worry about it now, maybe. Arguably, climate change will eventually improve the climate of all three by moderating it. The flip side of this is that the climate of much of the United States will definitely not improve form our poit of view, but instead will become drier, hotter, lessfertile, with more and more extrems weather patterns causing massive property destruction and rising injuries and deaths. In the United States, like most of the rest of the world, a high percentage of the population livfes extremely close to the ocean coastal areas, which are highly developed with billions of dollars of valuable property which is increasing threatened by rising sea level and severs storms. Shockingly, tragically, almost unbelievably, the United States under the Trump administration is not only doing nothign to prepare for and mtomitigate the future damage, but is actually pursuing policies guaranteed to accelerate the looming climate disaster, and to make it as horrible as possible. Trump is trying to revitalize the dying coal industry, disastrously, and has totally eliminated all attempts by the United States government to fight climate change, an even greater disaster. United States policy under Trump seems suicidal, because it is suicidal, and must be stopped, and reversed, by whatever menas necessary. For the moment, an extremely loud and constant expression of disapproval by a majority of Americans is vital, disapproving of Republican energy and economic policies, replading them with beneficial ones, such as mitigating climate change. First, we must at least try to convince our MAGA brethren and sistern that climate change is real.
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