Unless Cyborg Al Gore suddenly returns from the distant future with a full suite of planet-saving technology—or travels back to 2000 to tell all those nice old Jewish ladies in Florida to stop voting for Pat Buchanan—Earth is facing a reckoning, and soon.
With extreme weather events becoming more frequent and alarming (Houston’s weekend windstorm is just the latest example), we’ll be lucky if we haven’t already Wile E. Coyote’d off the climate change cliff. Yet Republicans see a planet choking on the predictable results of 50 years of bad decisions and say, “Hold my beer—it’s brewed with fossil fuels and bears distinctive notes of hazelnut, fruit, and fermented panda.”
In the latest episode of “Freddy Krueger Has Left Your Nightmares to Focus Full-Time on Donald Trump’s 2024 Transition,” Politico is reporting that Andrew Wheeler, Trump’s former Environmental Protection Agency administrator and an ex-coal company lobbyist, would be keenly interested in returning to the White House to finish the job he started. Which, again, mostly entails killing the planet.
