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Well-meaning people fret about whether humans really are warming the planet and whether Trump is doing harm.\u00a0 I recognize their rationalization.\u00a0 What harm could it do to go along with the Paris Accord?\u00a0 It\u2019s like an insurance policy, right?\u00a0 And if you\u2019re a guy in your fifties or sixties and your money is already made and you\u2019re getting ready to retire that\u2019s probably an easy way to accept it.\u00a0 But if you\u2019re twenty or thirty or even forty years old you need steady work and steady growth to make your life work.\u00a0 You\u2019re starting a career or buying a house or trying to get kids through college.\u00a0 And trying to do that in a low growth, energy poor economy is pretty ugly.\u00a0 That\u2019s the Jimmy Carter\/Barack Obama model.\u00a0 Small businesses disappearing, big businesses contracting and squeezing the workers for the privilege of keeping their jobs and government providing more bureaucrats and doling out the food stamps and misery to the serfs.<\/p>\n
I saw this in the late seventies when I was coming of age.\u00a0 Jimmy Carter had an economy so bad that one of the cheapest insurance companies in the world gave its employees a bonus just because inflation made their paychecks so pathetic that even they felt pity for the workers.\u00a0 Now my kids and grandkids are growing up in this latest nightmare.\u00a0 The Masters of the Universe have exported all their opportunities to Asia and the Trust Find Kids have outlawed combustion because the planet has a fever.\u00a0 This was okay for George Bush and Barack Obama and the rest of the Washington gang because their kids all have jobs with the State Department or NBC.\u00a0 But mine don\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Donald Trump\u2019s kids have all the money they\u2019ll ever need and so do his grandkids.\u00a0 And maybe he really doesn\u2019t care that our kids don\u2019t.\u00a0 But at the very least he heard the people who are hurting and figured out how to get their votes.\u00a0 Let\u2019s take this least flattering case.\u00a0 He\u2019s just taking advantage of the ideological situation of working class white people revolting against progressive policy neglect.\u00a0 All just naked power politics no human feeling whatsoever.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll still take it.\u00a0 It\u2019s the best deal we\u2019ve been offered in a generation.\u00a0 Ronald Reagan was a friendly face and a reassuring voice and a sensible speech.\u00a0 Donald Trump is an angry face and a hectoring voice and he communicates in staccato sound bites and slogans.\u00a0 But both of them are on my side.\u00a0 Whether ideologically or pragmatically they are aligned with me.\u00a0 And that\u2019s good enough for me.<\/p>\n
George Will was deploring the barbarians that have replaced his beloved conservative losers.\u00a0 Those cheerful cultured republicans of yesteryear who happily went down to defeat but kept their dignity and trust funds intact while the rest of us were fed to the progressives.\u00a0 Somehow, we need to be grateful for the manly effort they expended while adhering to the Marquess of Queensberry rules and gloriously not winning.<\/p>\n
Well, sorry no.\u00a0 I want the narrative where we don\u2019t lose and my descendants aren\u2019t serfs.\u00a0 So no, no climate scam for me, thanks.\u00a0 If the temperature does increase by ten degrees F, I\u2019ll move to Canada or Alaska or Siberia.\u00a0 In fact, that may be a better climate profile since Canada and Russia are the two largest countries on earth and both of them are too cold for much agriculture.\u00a0 And the idea that New England might be able to support orange trees and bananas doesn\u2019t disturb me overmuch.\u00a0 Maybe I\u2019ll become an orange rancher like my hero Harold Bisonette.<\/p>\n
But anyway, that\u2019s why I don\u2019t have any sympathy for the environmentally sensitive.\u00a0 If they really are that worried about carbon emissions then let them get Leonardo DeCaprio and Al Gore and Barack Obama and Prince Charles to start taking sail boats when they travel to the latest environmental summit.\u00a0 Or better yet, let them skype instead.\u00a0 But either way I\u2019ll keep using gasoline and heating oil as long as they last.\u00a0 After that I\u2019m hoping hydrogen produced electrolytically from nuclear power plant generated electricity will be the fuel of the future.\u00a0 But, however we do it I\u2019m certainly not going to worry about global warming.\u00a0 I\u2019ll leave that to really smart people like Cher and Miley Cyrus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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