Once in a while however, moments or periods of time occur when we can clearly see history unfolding before our eyes. Whether it be the Civil Rights era, the moon landing or 911; we know these moments or periods of time are monumental as we’re experiencing them. Donald Trump becoming the 45th President of The United States will be such a period. His presidency will be a time when we feel the cold winds of history occurring every step of the way.
This is the perfect storm.
He is at the helm of the most powerful nation in the history of the world at a time when the most powerful catastrophe in human history is approaching. Winter is coming and all while the most powerful man in the world doesn’t believe in winter. The self-proclaimed master of negotiations is now face to face with Mother Nature and she doesn’t negotiate … ever.
If you’ve ever watched the television series, Game of Thrones you can see a fictional story play out some of our non-fictional reality. Its basic premise is that of a bunch of powerful leaders battling it out for the chance to rule them all. Simultaneously, a much larger problem descends upon their world. Those thirsty for power of course either ignore or don’t believe in the larger problem except for a few who keep warning those who remain oblivious. In the show, the larger problem is a massive army of ice covered, walking-dead zombies. In reality we are the zombies but our apparent problem is climate change. In the show it appears these ice zombies can be defeated if the squabbling powers unite. In reality it appears that we are unwilling to come to terms with a problem that isn’t a problem at all, but rather a predicament. In Game of Thrones, the few warn the oblivious by saying, “Winter is coming.” In reality we not only have to deal with the denial of climate change, but also with those who believe it can somehow be solved.
I wish I lived in a world where we could simply come together and give ourselves a chance against what’s coming.
Unfortunately I live in a world where even those who accept winter is coming cannot accept the reality of the situation we are in. Some say if we had foreseen our current predicament we may have united and changed the inevitable outcome. To them I say, “Nope.” We were born into a living arrangement that had no future from its inception. Being born into it leaves one with no tools or more importantly, no sense of its deep rooted destructiveness. Living in the modern world just feels like life after all. The reality however is it’s not life but the destroyer of life.
So we march on into the abyss believing our modern living arrangement is life.
We continue to war with one another. We continue to hoard from one another. We continue to remain blind to our predicament. So before we jump all over President Trump for disrupting our best laid plans. Before we blame him for injustices performed on behalf of the state. Before we blame him for his denial of climate change. We may want to consider that our living arrangement has been a disruption to those who remain unseen to us. We may want to consider that injustices by the state continue because we remain apathetic and comfortable. We may want to consider that his denial in actuality isn’t any different from our own when it comes to the realities of climate change. Winter is coming and believing we can solve it is more ridiculous than anything Trump has said or done up to this point. We’re history.
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Nature doesn’t negotiate…and the ingredients are already baked into the cake. https://guymcpherson.com/climate-chaos/climate-change-summary-and-update/
Nature doesn’t, but it does correct itself. I highly doubt though that man will become extinct. Maybe 99% of the population will go bye bye with insufficient clean water, natural disasters, rampant disease, war, etc. Some people will survive. With the world less crowded, nature will correct itself. Now I’m not suggesting I’d be one of the people who survives. I probably won’t, but I haven’t feared death in about 40 years or so. Public speaking on the other hand still terrifies me with failure a close second. Kind of surprised I made it past my 20s with all the… Read more »
John, all species eventually go extinct. We will be no different except for the fact that a particular culture (the industrial culture) accelerated our own extinction by our own hubris.
John Anderson, you are wrong, my friend. You are living in a classic state of denial, which is excusable, given the scale of the current catastrophe we are facing.
Do you really think humans can somehow get past the 6th Mass Extinction event? Denial. 😉
The problem will get resolved. You may not like how it gets resolved, but it will. It won’t even be the end of humanity or the world. It will be the end of the most vulnerable and marginalized. Those people who don’t have access to clean water or electricity to cool themselves in the summer or those who can’t afford heat in the winter. Those who contribute most to the problem will be least affected by it. That’s why it’s a problem. Maybe that’s why Trump was elected. He’ll build up the military so that we can ensure access to… Read more »
Unfortunately John, you don’t seem to comprehend what a predicament is. A predicament is not a problem to be solved, a predicament has no solution. The instinct for survival is irrelevant without habitat. You seem to believe that the US is somehow exempted from the rest of the globe. It isn’t…and building up the military won’t save habitat. In fact, building the military will serve only to destroy our habitat even further.