I've recently caught up with the state of American politics, and have been both horrified and amused. Yes of course, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Hillary Clinton are all despicable, worthless frauds. But the circus that they're circling around and the media coverage of it is far worse, as it has obscured the most important political issue.
And that is The Environment, or more specifically, our destruction of The Environment and how we might curtail its destruction so that our grandchildren may actually live on this planet.
I'm not going to debate "global warming" here. We have more evidence that "global warming" is real and that is caused by human activity than we have evidence for the fact that the Earth rotates around the Sun. (If you reject this claim, go look for the edge on the flat earth and/or pray to your deity of choice)
I love life. I love the cosmic miracle that our existence is a one in a billion trillion chance - that we happened to have won a cosmic lottery where we intelligent humans came about on this pale blue dot of a planet.
And I hate the fact that we are blackening this pale blue dot we live on. All evidence suggests that our current methods of energy consumption will not only run out, but will poison our planet to the point of extinction; microbes may not even survive.
In other words, our current state of existence will result in us drowning in our polar ice caps if we are lucky; and if we are not lucky, we will die of suffocation because our environmental air will be so polluted as to not sustain life.
This is an extremely prescient political issue.
So, where is the candidate who advocates our survival by drastic environmental reform?
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