CLIMATE CHANGE, COVID-19 & THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION - WHAT A YEAR!

Climate change has brought the world floods, droughts, heat waves, crop failures, displacement and death and more. Astoundingly it's not been THE Story of 2020. That dubious honour of course goes to Covid-19 with the ongoing election counting and increasing hysteria of an apparent five year old President only temporarily taking centre stage. Humankind has shown an uncanny ability to destroy and only in some crises has he/she been able to step up for the good of all and turn around very bad situations. When both Covid-19 and President Trump are gone the world will go back to THE real crisis of our century namely climate change. .................................................................................................... This is not to say that the next big virus isn't waiting around the corner. That big virus could be another similar to Covid-19 or speaking metaphorically it could be yet another U.S. demamgogue. Are Americans particularly prone to tin pot dictators and the Cult of the Personality? Probably not. Think of Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler and you can see literally hundreds of millions of human beings desperately reaching out blindly for saviours. Americans aren't any dumber intrinsically than other people around the world. Unfortunately as a group they aren't any smarter either. ............................................................................................................... Humanity continue to destroy the environment on earth and that will be the eventual end of us. My only hope is that when we go we don't take the rest of life on earth with us. Plants, trees, animals, fish, insects do not deserve extinction because of our behaviors. Someday, somewhere intelligent life may actually have records of humankinds short span on earth and it will be an object lesson for other species to observe, learn from and avoid.