There is a fundamental problem with "adapting" to climate change as former ExxonMobil CEO (and now Secretary of State Rex Tillerson) states in an article from five years back when he describes all of us as stupid and the press as lazy.
The issue is economics. Not everyone has $250 million in assets as Rex does. "Exxonasaurus Rex" might believe that if one of your homes is inundated with flood water -you simply take your family to one of your other homes -perhaps a flat in Manhattan, your ranch in Montana or your expansive Spanish-style home in Southern California.
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| Tillerson's $5.6 Million Dollar Washington DC Home (Adapting well!) |
The issue of "adapting" that Rex speaks of is related to wealth. While this Administration embraces coal, tar sands, coastal oil drilling, pipelines through aquifers and sacred lands -they have no concern about your economic ability to "adapt".
The perspective of the Trump Administration is -if you are the CEO of Energy Transfer Partners or have a significant amount of your wealth parked in ExxonMobil, Chevron or others in the extraction industry -we will protect you and benefit you (and please keep those big campaign contributions rolling in).
From the GOP perspective if you haven't acquired significant wealth -you are probably voting for the wrong people anyway -so we hope you are all strong swimmers.
This is why we must create our own "people-powered" massive voting wave in 2018 and beyond. Without bold climate action -it may already be too late for the survival of future generations. We cannot afford another Administration, Congress, Governors or State Legislatures that are putting profit and wealth concentration for their largest donors above a livable planet. If we are still arguing about email servers -we will be as responsible as climate deniers for a future of misery inflicted upon our children and grandchildren.
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