Buckle Up. Things Are About to Get Even Uglier

Public domain photo from the U.S. Forest Service

There’s a big elephant in the room when it comes to America’s political turmoil and the turn of one of our political parties completely towards fascism, and that’s climate change. I just read this article warning that with the planet’s average global temperature growing hotter, combined with the first El Nino in 7 years, we have no idea what kind of hellish summer we could be in for.

And we’re beginning to see the consequences of relying on our beautiful ocean to trap the ever increasing tons of emissions fossil fuel drilling spews into our atmosphere.

Oceans protect us by absorbing vast amounts of heat-but payback is coming

As our emissions have continued to increase, the heating of the planet and ocean have increased. Let’s face it. “Climate change is a hoax” was always a fossil fuel-industry funded LIE.

So how do I think the existential threat posed by climate change is influencing our politics?

My experience as a political activist since I was 18 has proven it. I’ve had a front row seat to the GOP’s long slow slide into theocratic fascism for a long time now. I watched Republican after…