Blaming It On The Chinese

THE GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA does not believe in climate change. He does not believe that climate change engendered by human industrial activity exists. Evidently he thinks that claims of global warming and climate change are a dirty trick perpetrated by democrats, liberals, socialists, communists, Hillary Clinton, and the Chinese. The governor, a republican, does not allow the term "climate change" to appear on state operated web sites. Nor the term "global warming". Nor should it be lawful, he perhaps thinks, in the sunshine state, to utter these expression in public, or in private. Or that in the event of a hurricane, anyone heard to remark "particularly nasty weather", he or she utters this sentence should be required to immediately disavow having made the remark, and should immediately claim to instead of said: "tickle your ass with a feather.", under penalty of fines, incarceration, suspension of first amendment rights, or all the above. Meanwhile, the Atlantic ocean, with great regularity, folds the city of Miami, and the sporting sort breakout their kayaks and go for a pleasant paddle above city streets. Florida has invested five hundred million dollars in a sea wall, designed only to delay the inevitable; the reduction of the Florida peninsula to a narrow string of land jutting southward from Georgia. Florida is in a state of denial. Life continues apace, as if nothing were seriously wrong. New buildings go up, new people invents and move into them, eager to begin a new life in paradise. Miami Bbeachians, many of them older retirees, figure they'll never have to worry about it. They tend to vote republican. Younger people are afflicted with the chronic disease of the young; an inability to conceive of the future. A few hundred miles up the coastal highway, the entire Trump administration consists of people who do not believe in climate change, even though the rising waters of Chesapeake Bay are starting to permanently inundate land which has been in the same families for generations. Those who live along the bay can plainly se what's going on, but not the administration. The Environmental Protection agency is headed by a man, Mr. Pruitt, who spent his pre EPA days filing frivolous lawsuits against the EPA, which impressed the president, who therefore appointed Pruitt to the post. Now, Mr. Pruitt is going about the business of making the agency which he runs as impotent as possible. All mention of climate change has been deleted from the EPA website. Why are the American people permitting this? Because the American people are notoriously self absorbed, and are content with the status quo as long as the bills are paid, the income is steady, and there is money in the bank and a big bright flat screen in the man cave. Also, because many of them are Republicans, and therefore consider climate change to be a liberal hoax, a dirty trick played on us by liberals and democrats, seeking ways to expand government power over the people. The theory that climate change is a Chinese hoax comes straight from the president.