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.
2 comments:
Thank you Michael for emphasizing our ecological crisis. I'm astonished at all the "science" youtube channels that never mention our ecological crisis - and yet claim to be searching for some unified theory of everything. Truly Professor David F. Noble was correct that modern science is the "religion of technology." I had new corroboration of my music theory claim. In 2017 I did a blogpost that the secret of the "time crystal" eternal perpetual motion invention was noncommutativity. In 2024 two physicists published the same claim! I discovered their paper last night. Their Ph.D. protege did her thesis on how the secret of cosmology and black holes is also noncommutativity. She is now in charge of Europe's quantum cybersecurity defense. Her mentor in Portugal also published on the mystery of time in nonwestern philosophy - this is also noncommutativity that he also says is the secret of quantum teleportation (as my own quantum physics professor Herbert J. Bernstein realized).
So we live in the irony of an ancient truth of music theory as spiritual meditation paranormal power is also the truth of the eternal time of the Universe. Yet modern science has been on symmetric commutative geometry thus creating our Anthropocene Era crisis - as this same physics professor from Portugal has realized.
I already got arrested eight times protesting and I worked for half a dozen nonprofits at entry level wages - while also volunteering for campaigns and organizing coalitions in Minneapolis. Our ecological crisis is a spiritual existential crisis with the Drumpf regime trying to be like Hitler - only as Noam Chomsky pointed out Drumpf is worse than Hitler due to our ecological crisis.
Tragically the future of life on Earth is algae - one way or another. Algae can sequester 100 gigatons of CO2 per year. Sir David King is working on volcanic deep ocean fertilizer to create algae blooms to capture 30 gigatons of CO2 per year. A few Chinese scientists (one at MIT/Harvard and two in Guangdong) are using AI to map near ocean algae farms to sequester 100 gigatons of CO2 per year. Brilliant Planet, the company by double Ph.D. marine biologist Raffael Jovine now has an algae farm in Morocco that will be rapidly scalable to around the world sites to sequester 1 gigaton of CO2 per year. Meanwhile toxic algae blooms are bursting up due to our phosphorus and sewage pollution of the oceans with the increasing ocean heat content.
Thank you Unknown for these pertinent comments, but why conceal your identity? If you're worried about being arrested again, I understand--and it does seem that we are sliding downward into fascist state where there is no freedom of speech.Not yet, my friend. The climate crisis is something we all need to be screaming about! The crime is to be silent.
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