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All about Nature, about the outdoors<>I love it, photograph it and protect it.
The comprehensive report about Climate Change and its consequences is called the National Climate Assessment and it was released about ten weeks ago.
I noted that the report had been released at that time but failed to put together a post about it.
But, obviously, the assessment is still very relevant a few weeks later. And it’s very, very urgent.
This was the fourth Assessment, the third having been released in 2014.
Not only is the tRump administration showing complete indifference to the report, they tried to minimize its impact by timing its release for Black Friday.
Just what you’d expect from a president who has tried very, very hard to kill our nascent solar power industry, done everything in his power to shrink National Parks, green-lighted proposed drilling projects in extreme environmentally-sensitive areas and who believes that the very idea of climate change is a hoax cooked up by the Chinese government.
I am in that clique of passionate climate change-watchers who are science-literate, pretty well up-to-date on the latest developments and who have concluded that humans will never take the hard actions which would be necessary to keep the horrible, earth-killing consequences which are outlined in the assessment from happening.
The chances that humanity will act in time are very, very close to zero.
And it certainly won’t be because we weren’t warned.
It will be because business interests who are profiting from the status quo and corrupt and ignorant politicians were hell-bent on raping the Earth to safeguard corporate profits.
It’s a dark, disgusting and dystopian story. One with a shitty, tragic ending.
And humanity is too cowardly and too subservient to its corporate overlords to keep the story from coming true.
To see the assessment in its entirely, follow this link.
“Bulldog Ben” Basile
© 2019 Ben Lawrence Basile
Enjoy the Outdoors. Love the Planet. 
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