Let me float this theory: I hear constantly how we “just can’t let a man like Trump become President, because it will destroy everything we’ve worked for”. While I agree that Trump absolutely should not be elected, and that it would be a mockery and an opening of Pandora’s box in many ways, I also have to believe that, since we don’t live in a monarchy, he would not be able to just DO whatever he wants. That’s clear from the widespread reaction to the idea of his becoming President. There will be massive political action rising up against him at every attempt to actually achieve any of the crazy things he claims he would do. So , there ARE actions we can take to prevent and block his insane ideas.
On the other hand, the Climate Crisis will not respond to our protests that it not bring it’s increasingly horrible consequences. It will not cease to continue to unleash havoc from the ecological upheaval that is already “in the pipeline”. And this is why I feel a great sense of danger in what , by comparison, is a distraction from , yes, DEEPER and MORE SERIOUS problems than a Trump presidency. Hillary Clinton’s history and inclinations are not focused on the Climate Crisis. Far from it. She has been focused almost entirely on Trump, and how she’s “Not HIm”. True. She’s NOT HIM.
But who is SHE? She is not going to enable/direct the United States to rerspond as we must to the Climate Crisis. Her suggestions thus far, even IF she follows through (a matter on which I also have grave doubts, given her “connecctions” to and sympathies with neo-liberal economics, which maintain a major role for fossil fuel driven efforts to forestall the kind of radical, HAD-TO-BEGIN-YESTERDAY efforts to replace our energy sources with renewables). These are the things that keep me up at night re: Hillary Clinton.
While we obsess over what a possible Trump presidency might cause over the next 4 years, we are continuing to ignore how we are yet to take a detour from the ecological destruction we are causing, and bringing not only upon ourselves, but even worse dangers on our children and grandchildren, and edging ever closer toward human extinction.
