Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Dear Daily Disaster Diary, May 14 2025

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What They Don't Tell Us About Climate Change | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

No Lookouts on the Titanic: How Trump's Climate Denialism Became a National Death Wish

If there were a scientific test — or a crystal ball — that could tell me when I will die and what I could have done to suffer less, would I want to know?

Maybe not.

But if that test existed to tell us how to prevent the slow collapse of our grandchildren’s lungs, our homes, our food systems, and the very skies we breathe?

Then hell yes, I’d want to know. And I’d want to act on it.

But what do you do when the captain of the ship fires all the lookouts — because he doesn’t believe in icebergs?

What do you do when the president of the United States fires hundreds of scientists tasked with monitoring the climate crisis — not because their science was wrong, but because their science was inconvenient?

What do you do when your nation, once a leader in innovation, facts, and global leadership, becomes a laughingstock? A rogue state. A pariah. A land whose elected officials cling to oil baron slogans like “drill, baby, drill” while Miami drowns and Texas burns?

The Irony is Blinding

Let’s entertain the fantasy. Let’s say climate change is a Chinese hoax, just like Trump said. If that’s the case, why is the insurance industry abandoning coastal homeowners, slashing coverage, and raising premiums across the board?

If there’s no warming, no rising seas, no more billion-dollar disasters — then where’s Trump’s executive order banning insurers from “spreading climate lies” by refusing to cover homes?

Where’s the MAGA rage at Allstate, State Farm, USAA and others who are pulling out of Florida and California like rats off a burning ship?

It’s almost like — stay with me here — they believe in climate science more than the government does.

A Slow-Motion National Suicide

In May 2025, the Trump administration dismantled the National Climate Assessment team — hundreds of scientists and researchers legally tasked by Congress to give the American people a fact-based look at how bad things are getting.

This isn’t just an attack on truth. It’s sabotage. If we were in a war (and we are — against time and physics), this would be treason.

Imagine firing your military intelligence team because their reports didn’t say what you wanted to hear. That’s what just happened — but with the climate, our food supply, our health systems, our future.

The data is clear. The scientists — the ones who still have jobs — are terrified. Some are breaking ranks and admitting what they can’t say publicly: we may already be past multiple tipping points.

But the president? He believes that not measuring the problem is the same as solving it. That gutting science makes it go away. That if the scientists don’t report it, it can’t hurt us.

This is the same logic that killed a million Americans during COVID. No testing, no pandemic. No climate report, no climate change.

A Nation of Fossil-Fueled Cowards

Behind the curtain, Republican lawmakers admit that climate change is real — but they’re waiting for their Fox-addled constituents to give them permission to act.

They’re waiting for voters to “wake up,” even as those same voters choke on wildfire smoke, die in floods, and lose their homes to insurance market collapse.

Meanwhile, in the 35 years since the first IPCC report, CO2 emissions have risen 60%. We knew. We had the charts. We had the tools. And we did worse.

Now we don’t have decades. We have years. Maybe less. And still — STILL — the richest country in the world is silencing the very people who can help us survive.

We’ll Be Paying China for Climate Solutions Soon

Here’s the next irony. By firing our scientists and abandoning climate innovation, we’re not just surrendering the truth — we’re surrendering our economic future.

We’ll be left playing catch-up, paying China and Europe for the clean tech, the water treatment systems, the flood defenses, and the heat-resistant crops we could have invented ourselves.

America, the empire, is on the fast track to second-tier status — not because we couldn’t lead, but because we chose not to.

Because we elected a man so hellbent on owning the libs that he torched the last few tools we had left to save ourselves.

Alternative Facts, Real-World Collapse

Ever since “alternative facts” became a doctrine in 2017, we’ve spiraled into a death cult of denial. A nation allergic to reality. A government that spits on its scientists, and a media ecosystem that rewards ignorance with airtime.

And now?

Our children have asthma.
Our coasts are disappearing.
Our crops are failing.
Our wildlands are on fire.
Our elderly are dying in heat waves.
Our rivers are drying up.

But the man in the Oval Office wants more oil rigs. More drilling. More fires for your lungs and more profits for Exxon.

We are watching the greatest self-inflicted wound in human history — and calling it “leadership.”

We Deserve Better — And We Still Have a Choice

This isn’t about Trump alone. This is about everyone who let him do this:

The corporate media that normalized his lies.
The fossil fuel execs who bought immunity with donations.
The lawmakers who knew the truth but stayed silent.
The citizens who refused to believe their own eyes and ears.

But here’s the brutal, saving grace: We still have time.

Not to avoid every disaster. But to mitigate the worst.

To stop more madness.
To build what’s next.
To fight for our kids.

But only if we stop pretending.

Only if we rise — even while the ship lists, the engines fail, and the captain raves.

Because the icebergs are real. And we’re already bleeding.

📢 What You Can Do (Right Now)

Call your representatives. Demand they protect the National Climate Assessment and rehire the fired scientists.
Cancel your support of climate-denying companies — including insurers lobbying against climate disclosures.
Educate others. Share real climate data, not social media sludge.
Donate to climate watchdogs and groups like Union of Concerned Scientists, 350.org, and Sunrise Movement.
Organize locally. Form community resilience teams. Talk to neighbors. Build your own data network if the government won’t.
Never forget: Silence = permission.

And denial = death.

If the scientists are scared, you should be too.

But fear is only useless if we freeze.

Use it. Move. Act. Speak. Fight.

Before the sand buries us all.

Sincerely,

Adaptation-Guide

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