The Most Astonishing Fact

 What could that be? Answer--the president of the most powerful nation on Earth believes that the world climate crisis is a hoax.  Why so astonishing? The answer has two parts.  First, the enormity of the stakes entailed, namely, planetary destruction and ecocide. Second, the transcendent stupidity of the President, along with his evil indifference to the fate of our environment.

There is an ad, a voice periodically heard on public television that reminds us that a million species of living creatures, due to climate and habitat change, are slated for extinction. That’s no hoax. It’s been noted repeatedly that the President has a style in which he accuses others of the crimes he is accused of.  He learned this piece of malign brilliance from one of the weirdest creeps of the McCarthy era, the ‘lawyer’ Roy Cohn. So, it’s the president that is trying to hoax the entire world and all the scientists. We need to underscore the gigantic danger of such a man possessing the power he has. A documented pathological liar, Trump has the power to trigger an atomic war, most likely, terminal for world civilization.  This too is part of the astonishing fact we’re all forced to live with. 

While I was researching my book, The Millennium Myth, I kept taking notes on all the predictions of the end of the world made by the visionaries and prophets of history. They were all wrong.  Little did I realize I would see the day when Noam Chomsky and others would be warning us about the growing onset of climate and nuclear end time. According to the millennium myth, there is always an end time rogue, an Antichrist or Satan.
So, given the real confrontation with looming apocalypse, we need a diabolic rogue to insert into our unfolding story.    I leave it to the reader to pick a candidate for the job.