This Morning we are speeding in a super up muscle car a big block v-8 hurdling toward, the undeniable, catastrophic reality of climate change—and the equally undeniable failure of leadership that’s allowing this crisis to spiral out of control. The planet is burning, the evidence is overwhelming, and yet, astonishingly, the response from those in power is to fiddle, deny, and deflect while the Earth gasps for air.
Facts. They are a bitch. And the receipts we have a plenty. The past eight years have been the hottest on record. Oceans are heating, glaciers are vanishing, and ecosystems are collapsing. From wildfires in California to hurricanes hammering the Gulf Coast, to worldwide drought or flooding or famine, take your pick of these horrors; the consequences of climate change are playing out in real time. And here’s the kicker: We know why this is happening. It’s us. Burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and industrial pollution have driven carbon dioxide levels to their highest in 800,000 years.
The science is clear. Over 97% of climate scientists agree: this is a human-driven crisis. The world’s leading scientific organizations—NASA, The National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have pulled the klaxon alarm. But while the house burns, the Trump regime part one chose not to grab a fire extinguisher but a gasoline canister.
In 2017, Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement—the first global accord to combat climate change—declaring it unfair to America. Unfair? What’s unfair is leaving future generations with an uninhabitable planet. His regime gutted environmental regulations, rolled back emissions standards, and opened vast swaths of protected land for drilling and mining, all in the name of “energy dominance.” They dismantled the Clean Power Plan, silenced climate scientists, and slashed funding for renewable energy research—all while doubling down on coal, the dirtiest of fuels, as if we’re living in the 19th century.
Trump himself called climate change a “hoax,” once tweeting that it was a concept “created by and for the Chinese.” This from the man who claimed wind turbines cause cancer and blamed forest fires on a lack of “raking.”
The United States, the world’s second-largest polluter, could be a leader in the fight against climate change. Instead, we are heading backward with the upcoming Dump Regime part Deux, making the US a global laughingstock—a nation so short-sighted it traded the future of the planet for a few years of fossil fuel profits.
So here we are, the evidence mounting, the consequences devastating, and the clock is ticking. Yet, instead of bold action, we’ve been served a cocktail of denial, deregulation, and delusion.
Elections have consequences and it is no salve to know the morons that helped put this monster and his billionaire boys club jag offs will be suffering right along with us.
The time for action is now. But not to erect escape vehicles as Elmo, Bezos and the rest of the oligarchs who don’t give a shit about you are building their rockets to ‘I have no idea where they think they are going’ but there is no Planet B—and no excuse for leaders who pretend otherwise.
-FOXX
Playlist
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Say Goodbye to Hollywood by Ronnie Spector and the E Street Band on Unfinished Business (Columbia) -
Sex and Money by The Stooges on Ready to Die (Fat Possum) -
Nausea by X on Los Angeles (Fat Possum) -
Minds by Riot Spears (Riot Spears) New -
The Waiting by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers on Hard Promises (Geffen) -
Makes No Sense at All by Husker Du on Flip Your Wig (SST) -
Love Is Like Oxygen by Sweet on Action! (RCA) -
Sex Junkie by Plasmatics on Beyond The Valley of 1984 (MVD Audio) -
Communist Eyes by The Germs on The Germs (Slash) -
Do You Wanna Dance? by Ramones on Rocket to Russia (Sire) -
Army Of Me by Björk on Post (One Little Indian) -
Cat People (Putting Out Fire) by David Bowie on Let's Dance (EMI) -
Jealous by Gene Loves Jezebel on Jealous (Beggars Banquet) -
Next to You by The Police on Outlandos D’Amour (A&M) -
I Love LA by Randy Newman on Trouble In Paradise (Warner Bros. Records)