Will the planet survive this meddlesome moron?
Doug Burgum announced
the deal, claiming, “the era of affordable, reliable and secure energy is
here to stay.” Someone might want to tell Burgum that we’re in the middle of a
war proving just the opposite. With crude oil prices skyrocketing, and
WWIII looming
over the Strait of Hormuz, there’s nothing reliable or secure
about fossil fuels except for campaign
donations to Trump.
Trump’s war on alternative energy has led to an
extraordinary transfer of public money to prop up fossil fuels, the main driver
of climate change, which Trump still
calls a “hoax.” Trump’s fight
to overrule science and abandon all climate protections seems like a
compulsion to destroy more than anything; Trump likely assumes he’ll be pushing
up daisies before Big Oil is forced to compensate victims.
Courts are stopping Trump’s war on cheap energy
In December, in continued service to Trump’s fossil fuel
donors, the Interior Department ordered
all work to halt on five wind
farms, claiming the projects were a “national security” threat. But a
Reagan-nominated judge, after reviewing the classified security report under
seal, didn’t see any claimed threat, and ruled
that the administration’s order halting the wind projects was
pretextual and unlawful.
It was the fifth consecutive court victory
for wind developers, and it allowed all halted projects to resume.
In an earlier ruling, after the administration issued a
stop-work order against another wind project that was
already 90% complete, the same judge found that Trump was “vocal in
criticizing offshore wind farms for reasons unrelated to national
security.” As
of two weeks ago, that project was back up and running, delivering enough
power to New England’s electric grid for 350,000 homes, saving residents $500
million a year. Trump, now paying companies not to produce
wind energy that saves Americans money while saving the climate, again looks
like a force of deliberate destruction.
The earth is cooking. Only a sadist would turn up the
heat.
Last Friday, four different locations in
Arizona and California hit 112 degrees, passing the record by 4 degrees for the
hottest day in March. The record-breaking
heat is expected to continue with a huge heat dome spreading across
the country. As it moves
eastward, the dome may unleash one of the most expansive heat
waves in American history.
On March 23, the UN’s World
Meteorological Organization (WMO), reported that the 11-year period ending
with 2025 was the hottest in recorded human history. 2024 was identified as the
hottest year ever, followed closely by 2025, confirming an accelerating climate
crisis. Despite climate damages already topping $150
billion annually, Trump continues to lie about the causal link to burning
fossil fuels.
Instead, on brand, the administration is erasing the
evidence. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which
formerly tracked the cumulative and rising costs of climate-charged weather
events, now displays an ominous message on
its public website: “In alignment with evolving priorities, statutory
mandates, and staffing changes, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental
Information (NCEI) will no longer be updating the Billion Dollar Weather and
Climate Disasters product.”
Trump clearly doesn’t want taxpayers to know how much they
are paying for local climate damage as they subsidize his wealthy fossil fuel
donors.
A scorched earth war in Iran continues the pattern of
destruction
While Trump is busy dropping bombs and threatening
power plants in Iran, the high-tech munitions in use by all sides are
scorching the earth with irreversible deep-soil chemical runoff and chemical
saturation. When warhead toxins
and heavy metals like lead, antimony, chromium, and arsenic burrow
into the soil and penetrate the deep earth, the region’s capacity to grow food
and support wildlife is damaged for generations. These pollutants also leach
into groundwater where they are absorbed by any crops that do manage to grow.
Meanwhile people in the region are being warned that the air is not safe to
breathe, as sooty rain falls from a black
sky.
The Guardian reports that the war in Iran is not only
causing severe environmental damage, it
is also accelerating climate destruction, with the emission of 5
million tons of CO2 in just the first 14 days. Meanwhile, Trump’s daily
intelligence briefings of the war is said to consist of entertaining
videosof “stuff blowing up.”
The soil where the missiles land will not grow food again in
our lifetimes.
Sometimes when I’m trying to make sense of the world, I
wonder whether Trump is a death force meant to accelerate our species’ removal
from the planet. Random cell mutations that serve no purpose other than the
destruction of life sometimes form in our own bodies. Maybe the planet, also a
living organism but of unfathomable intelligence, is hastening our demise so it
can get back to healthy trees, clean mountain air, and streams full of salmon.
If Trump is but a malignancy meant to hasten human
extinction, maybe
MAGA has been right all along, he really is ‘chosen.’
Sabrina Haake is a columnist and 25+ year federal trial
attorney specializing in 1st and 14th A
defense. She writes the free Substack, The
Haake Take.
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