Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020 | 2 a.m.
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President Donald Trump has promoted a fatalistic view of COVID-19 and climate change. Regarding COVID-19 deaths, he said, “It is what it is.” The United States has less than 5% of the world’s population but more than 20% of its coronavirus deaths.
With respect to hurricane devastation in Texas, Trump once asserted, “You’ve had tremendous storms in Texas for many decades, and for many centuries, and that’s the way it is.”
Now, in the face of conclusive contradictory evidence, Trump blames Western wildfires primarily on forest management.
According to physicist Philip Duffy, president of the Woodwell Climate Research Center: “Fundamentally, the science is very, very simple. Warmer and drier conditions create drier fuel. What would have been a fire easily extinguished now just grows very quickly and becomes out of control.”
Government is incapable of dealing with crises when it exclusively chooses the evidence that fits its beliefs. On Nov. 3, let’s vote for candidates who respect science.
