Paying Attention: Fraught For The Earth Day 2025

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Fraught For The Earth Day 2025 – Crisis Mismanagement

April 22, 2025

On this Earth Day, not only is there an environmental climate crisis around the globe (or across the globe for all the flat Earth freaks out there); the people of many countries are in the throes of a political climate crisis. From sea to shining sea, from continent to continent, democracy – whatever it may look like in any given locale – is losing its appeal and its grip. Neither of these crises is new, but they are each being pushed to the limit by a demented, toxic, narcissistic and very powerful psychopath, the name of which everyone on Earth (it’s round by the way you fucking flat Earth morons) is forced to know.

Unsurprisingly, these two crises are intimately intertwined. Trump is doggedly trying to maintain his axis of assholes. While continuing to laud shithead dictators like Putin, Un and Xi, Dickish Donald is making sure to be in good with the worst, including Hungary’s Orbán, Argentina’s Milei, most recently El Salvador’s Bukele, and any other asshole Trump can get his lips on – figuratively or otherwise.

In December 2023, Javier Milei, another Christo-fascist, faux-libertarian jackass, who campaigned brandishing an actual chainsaw (which he recently shared with fElon MusKKK), was elected president of Argentina. Fortunately, Trump, who congratulated the world’s newest dictator by saying Milei “will make Argentina great again” does not possess the physical strength to lift anything heavier than a Whopper. It seems likely that Argentina might now be more fascist than Florida. At least Trump will be able to find safe-haven when he decides to jump bail – like Napoleon, he was never going to be able to handle Russian winters.

Here at home, as we are too well aware, we have a disgraced, twice-impeached, 34-time-convicted (so far), failed insurrection leader and Fifth Amendment-dependent-yet-reelected-president, currently hard at work (i.e., 1-2 days a week, when someone can pry his golf club from his tiny, cold, live hands) trashing every fucking thing.

Back To The End Of The Future

NOVA– The Climate Crisis (circa 1983)

From a 1969 (Nixon) White House memo:

“As with so many of the more interesting environmental questions, we really don’t have very satisfactory measurements of the carbon dioxide problem. On the other hand, this very clearly is a problem, and, perhaps most particularly, is one that can seize the imagination of persons normally indifferent to projects of apocalyptic change.”

The memo further stated that dumping more CO₂ into the atmosphere

“could increase the average temperature near the earth’s surface by 7 degrees Fahrenheit. This in turn could raise the level of the sea by 10 feet. Goodbye New York. Goodbye Washington, for that matter.”

The Nixon White House memo (did I mention it was produced in 1969, which by some accounts was 56 years ago…in the past) also offered ideas for mitigating the coming (now here) disaster, including

“fairly mammoth man-made efforts to countervail the CO₂rise. (E.g., stop burning fossil fuels. I would think this is a subject that the Administration ought to get involved with.”

That was the Nixon administration. Richard Nixon. Paranoid, criminal scumbag. In 1969.

Then again, the Greenhouse Effect was initially posited in the 1890s. How we doin’ so far?

To Hell with “America First.”