Invisible To The GOP

  I think the excerpted quote below is about as succinct and accurate as it gets. It's all about crisis in the USA, that's where the action is. We are not a forward looking society, generally speaking. Look at Trump's campaign line - "Make America Great Again" - it's like a wish to turn back the clock to the 50s, or some magical period in American history that never existed. So we think crisis with a strong sense of nostalgia.

Guardian UK: Climate change may be a burning issue – but election campaign tells another story -As Alaskans choose their Democratic nominee after a winter wiped out by high temperatures, among Republicans the climate question has been near invisible

“Unless a problem becomes a crisis, most Americans don’t want to talk or think about it. The only way our country deals with problems is when they become absolutely critical, that’s the way the government is set up. Everything gets blocked otherwise."