Donald Trump Doesn't Like Being Criticized (and Here's What He Can Do about That)

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Ok, but predictions for what the next fascist will do are different than predictions over the next 1 or 6 months. We should direct the bulk of our attention at the actions Raderstorf lists: I think he struck a good balance between short and medium term. Do that, and the fascists won’t have a long term. Working in our favor is the historical observation that fascism tends to burn itself out.

The problem with this view of mine, is that climate trends that were long term in 1990 are now upon us and are intensifying. Build back better was a solid step in the proper direction - the first one by policymakers - but it lacked among other things a strong R&D program. Stranger:

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The problem is that we’ve been kicking that can down the road so long (and now, for at least four more years, and likely indefinitely) that there is no more time for “one crisis at a time”. We’ve tacitly signed off on a +2 °C mean global temperature above the pre-Industrial baseline, likely before 2050 (and maybe significantly earlier), and probably something around +3.6 °C by end of century if not before. There is effectively nothing we can actually do to stop this because the world has given a collective shrug and just mocks the “Just Stop Oil” protestors for throwing soup on paintings (which is pretty dumb but at least gets them in the news, unlike the legions of climatologists and cryosphere scientists projecting increasingly dire warnings that are totally ignored as a kind of freak sideshow to all of the oil and gas deals going on…

But, of course, we aren’t because “One crisis at a time”, and we are frankly focused on the wrong and mostly manufactured crises of culture wars and immigration, not climate change, erosion of scientific literacy, or applying an economic model with a tag line other than “Drill, baby, drill!” Basically, we are completely fucked at this point, not for a want of a nail but for melting down all the nails to make a crown for an idiot king.