Misunderstanding Begins At The Top
Let’s look at an example of misunderstanding beginning at the top, ah, err, umm, how about the new Cabinet appointments? I’ve got it. Let’s use the ones tied into climate – Rick Perry, the Energy Secretary, Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, and Scott Pruitt as the Administrator of EPA. There are other players in the circus of climate change, but for the moment, let’s just focus on the current shock and awe campaign.
The first sense of these Cabinet Appointees, for many environmentalists–aside from that slightly ill feeling–is a knee-jerk reaction. That knee-jerk reaction contains outrage, concern, and a frantic examination of options in an attempt to sway events to a more positive path–because from a strictly environmentalist standpoint–the country appears to be hell-bent on oblivion, and perhaps our species as well, with these appointments as evidence.
But… For a more measured response, step back and reflect on the appointments; another view is possible–at least from the Climatebull’s viewpoint.
To wit:
In this day and age, regardless of political orientation, economic status, or previous job description, potential Cabinet level officials understand anthropogenic forcing of the radiative balance (global warming for you liberal media types). They understand GHGs are a clear and present danger to our society–OMG, DoD says GHGs r a threat multiplier–and that the acceleration of horrific climate events warms to a frightening pace.
That’s the clue.
On the other hand, if you prefer to consider the current crowd of Cabinet-level appointees as morons, crooks, grifters, or demons–that is your choice. After all, that is what freedom is all about; the freedom to choose your truth, not withstanding digital monitoring and digital adjustments to data files.
Regardless, the aforesaid Cabinet Appointees will not implement government environmental and energy policies that ignore the changing climate–regardless of what the oh-so-suspect-media claims. So you can calm down on that one.
On the other hand, the severity of events calls for a sense of control, the perception of a smooth economic flow, and a need by those in power to contain concern in the population lest the current policy makers become wigglers and lawbreakers in a brutal future.
Get it now? I mean why these people were appointed by the new POTUS-elect.
Good, there’s more. Consider this…
Aging masters of the universe sauntering forth to control the uncontrollable, party loyalists trotted out by a disavowed president-elect to somehow cope with the unfolding climate crisis. Pruitt, Tillerson, and Perry are nothing more than sacrificial cows; poor souls led to the slaughterhouse of record upon the hoof of ego–ready to find they are fingering a leaking dike of 19th century economies, then watching it crumble. Destined to be laughed at by history, ridiculed by schoolchildren, finally retired into the folds of some future college text on how to mismanage crisis, these Cabinet officials deserve our sympathy and our understanding–not our fears.
Climate change is a self-righting event. Will the climate enter a passive state, before there is horror, death, and suffering on a massive scale? At this point, all involved see little chance of a solution without a team effort, but, instead of dealing with the shift from centralized authority and power to decentralized power, the current authority will distract, use graft to solidify its power, elect corrupt politicians, defile science, degrade religion, foster a corrupt media, destroy critical thinking, promote the use of drugs and narcotics–like marijuana–to keep the population passive, while delivering to the population a set of sacrificial believers wrapped in Smith-myth, a jug band Rand. Before us approaches a Roman Circus of perversity possible only in the Information Age.
Am I concerned about these Cabinet appointments?
I have sympathy for those sacrificed on the alter of “No-Can-Do.” On the other hand, “the powers that be” have decided on this strategy–and if one datum has been made particularly clear in the recent election, it is this: The Information Age favors the powerful not the populace. Those currently in power will fight to retain, and in fact consolidate, their power as the climate continues to degrade, rather than seeking an all-hands-on-board solution to address the changing climate. Which means…
Too many have forgotten that America is not some mediocre corporate event chaired by frightened C-level staff. America is a great country adjusting to the new climate regime. Pity the sacrificial cows.
Or, you could laugh.
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