Trump, Grifters, and Climate Change
We need to face the monster we’ve all played a part in creating.
The Hurricanes have hit Texas and we’re still seeing the effects of it in Puerto Rico. Fires have engulfed California and we’re still seeing nothing close to the kind of analysis we need to face even worse situations in the future.
In fact, even though the media has shown the destruction, even though the media has talked about Climate Change, it has not talked about the solutions to our problems. I don’t even mean the actions to reduce the damage being done to the environment—which must be done and at a break-neck pace—but also what we’ll need to do to tamp down on the damage that will be done to us and to the rest of the world.
What I mean is where is the talk about spending on green infrastructure. Not just how we will get our energy, but how we will protect our cities from rising oceans and hurricanes and fires and droughts and whatever else will come and how we will make sure to have insurance for such catastrophic events without actually encouraging people to further build in areas that will be encroached upon by nature?
What about having a federal first response team that pays people full wages and gives them a career in fighting fires and helping out in other damaged areas? Do this instead of using prisoners (aka the new slave labor)? Have a way to help other people in the world deal with things like drought or floods. Start up some desalination techniques instead of waiting for drought to marginalize entire swathes of people who we’ll spend billions bombing. Wouldn’t we learn so much more as a nation if we put some R&D behind this and other ways to improve the world? Don’t we want to be more humane?
And the funny thing is, if you are aware of Climate Change and how damaging it can be, you will think this to be a very basic to-do list. While if you don’t believe in CC (why are you here? Seriously, I want to know) you will think…. actually I’m not sure what you think. But for those who care about the country and the world it’s in, please try to spread the word. We have a lot of obstacles, a lot of powers aligned against trying to better our world. That shouldn’t stop us from making it happen.
