Burning To Death

THE WILDFIRES ENGULFING Australia are hellish, apocalyptic, and have, according to estimates, killed half a billion animals. People in California, where the former late summer fire season has expanded to encompass the entire year, can relate. Satellite photography and rain forest residents in Brazil tell us about the recent reduction of much of the Amazon rain forest to scorched earth. Brazil's president, a right wing Trump styled "populist", is unconcerned, his agenda being the replacement of the forest with commercial development and cattle ranching. The pattern should be evident to all concerned, meaning all of us. Climate change, among other destruction manifestations, is setting the world afire, as reduced rainfall in drought stricken areas, coupled with capitalistic corporate policies which seek to exploit the Earth's resources for profit rather than preserve them for future generations, combine to make our destruction unavoidable. it is difficult to imagine any greater evil than corporate controlled governments, such as the United States government, pretending that climate change does not exist, while promulgating policies designed to gain the maximum short term profit at the expense of all life on earth. Noam Chomsky says that the election of 202 is a referendum on whether the human race will survive, or destroy the Earth's environment and become extinct. he has the facts to prove it, facts having to do with the likely amount of carbon to be added to the atmosphere over the next few years in the absence of any sustained national policy to fight, reduce, and reverse climate change. "Bring back coal", says the great reprobate Trump, ignoring the reality of the free market, which wants to price coal out of teh market in favor of renewable energy. Anyone who supports Trump's policies and refuses to accept the reality of man made climate change, and who refuses to work to repair it, is a traitor and a criminal against humanity and nature. We can hardly expect Trump's conservative evangelical Christian gangster supporters to help save us; they are too preoccupied awaiting the "rapture", the fantasy fiction by which they excuse themselves for their criminal behavior.