Regime Change Before Climate Change

The climate change summit in Poland concluded earlier this month with a plan by all of the nations in attendance - except the United States - to implement the Paris Agreement.

What's the plan? How the hell should I know?  Why the hell should I care?  Because as long as the United States plans to withdraw from the climate accord in 2020, nothing the rest of the world does will matter.  The U.S. even joined oil producers such as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Russia (now I get why Putin wanted Trump in the White House!) in trying to block at the conference a resolution saying that climate change is a serious problem.

The United States is, last time I checked, the second biggest carbon emitter after China, and we Americans decided a long time ago that if fighting climate change means changing the way we live, we weren't interested.  Even with more Americans willing to do their part to cut carbon emissions, many more still are not.  I can eat poultry hamburgers, rely on natural light, maximize the fuel economy in my five-cylinder Golf (I couldn't get a four), and take public transit and/or walk when possible, but too many people eat steak thrice a week, use electric lights they don't need, and go everywhere in SUVs.  And no matter how many states and companies pledge their allegiance to WASIC (the We Are Still In Coalition, the coalition of Americans honoring the Paris Agreement), it's likely never going to be enough.

Unless Donald Trump is voted out of office in 2020.

And shame on those in the Democratic leadership who attempt to keep a climate hawk from getting the party's 2020 presidential nomination like they did in 2016 (I ain't talkin' about Bernie Sanders!).  If we don't get Trump voted out, we will be the ecological outlaw of the world and we'll deserve to be boycotted - boycotted, like South Africa in the days of apartheid.  And it may already be too late by then.  Sorry to bum you all on Christmas Eve, but the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come is pointing his long, bony finger and showing us a future even scarier than Scrooge's - a world where Florida has fallen into the sea and where California is a burned out desert.  But these are only the shadows of . . . what may be.    

Let's change our administration before the climate changes.