I'm watching extensive coverage of Hurricane Michael on CNN, and although I am watching the effects of 150 mph winds, I cannot imagine them in reality, they genuinely overwhelm the imagination. I read an article earlier that although there is no such thing as a category 6 hurricane, because there has never been one, it seems it is only a matter of time until there is. All of this leaves me wondering when Americans are going to accept the facts of global warming? I mean it is they who are suffering the brunt of it just now with hurricanes, drought, and wildfires in different parts of the nation. It is not so long ago that it seemed to us on this side of the Atlantic that the whole of California was on fire. America seems to be suffering one natural tragedy after another just now, and those have come just after a winter that brought what was incredible snow and cold over a massive area for someone like me who lives in a nation that does not see such things. If I was an American I would be asking the White House Looney if the costs of altering the nations energy supplies and usage will come anywhere near the cost of the effects all those natural disasters will have, which, whether the nutjob likes to admit it or not, have their genesis in changing climate patterns caused by human activity. That is the conclusion of all sane and rational scientific evidence and research. It matters not what the Moron thinks, it matters what Americans know but seem to be in complete denial of. Anyone who denies climate change and how it is affecting the different parts of the world, is either a completely cynical liar, totally insane, or both.
If America is to be hit, some time in the near future by a category six storm, Americans need to sit and quietly contemplate such a possibility, and then contemplate the type of politician they are electing who scoffs at such scientific evidence, and, more importantly, is quite prepared to take the chance that such events will occur because it will not affect them. It will only affect the little people. Whether it happens or not, the mere possibility of such an occurrence should scare the living daylights out of anyone.
This is another consequence of free market neoliberalism. Necessary climate change measures will be costs and will require changes to the American (and everyone else's) lifestyle. As a result, it will affect those people responsible for the things that cause climate change and that will not be tolerated. Such people will quite genuinely watch millions of people die before they will allow measures that affect them, and their wealth, and they will utilise every political measure and politician who is corrupt enough to support them to ensure they remain completely unaccountable. It never seems to occur to the average voter that all climate change deniers, in tandem with holocaust deniers, are all right-wing Republican and Tory free marketeers. In this country we are having the same kind of experience, but on the subject of fracking. Despite massive local opposition, despite the evidence that areas where fracking has been allowed are suffering earthquakes, however mild, this free market obsessed Tory government is completely deaf to reality and to their own constituents. They are bribed and corrupted to their very soul. Earthquakes, in Britain? They are suffering minor, but real earthquake activity in the area outside Blackpool. If any of you are familiar with this area it is unbelievable, and is the largest holiday area in the UK, as Blackpool is Britain's largest holiday resort and sits less than an hours drive from the Lake District. Significantly, this has only occurred since the Tory Blackpool council allowed licences, with the full support of the government, to begin fracking.
You see the free-marketeers don't care. Just as Bush was completely unmoved by Hurricane Katrina, so the Moron cares not a jot about what will happen in Florida and those southern states that bear the brunt of the hurricanes and the floods. Similarly the Tories care nothing for anything that happens outside of London. As you know I am not religious, but there is a part of the Bible that tells us that God is going to return to destroy those who destroy the earth. That is enough to encourage me to be a believer, and, if He/She does return, and will allow me, I will gladly help as much as I can. You have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor
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