My gosh, Trump IS America. At least vast portions of it. Have we really become loud-mouthed buffoons who trump-et instant solutions to the rest of the globe with the intellectual level of reality TV? What must the rest of the world see? We insist that our wishes be observed without having to listen to those of anyone else. We point our fingers at perceived moral outrages displayed by others while hiding our own depravities until caught. We somehow occupy every moral high-ground in inverse proportion to our actual standing.

Is this the moment in history when America announces to the rest of the world that we are no longer serious in participating in cohabitation of the planet? We apparently don’t want to work together for mutual survival solutions even though resources and assets are being channeled to a small, select group of faceless emperors who rule invisibly from hidden lairs. Is Trump fiddling while Ameri-Rome crumbles?

Down the environmental road, in what I believe will be an astonishing short time, we will find dwindling resources supporting smaller and smaller populations. But that’s exactly what the super rich need: just enough people around to serve their needs under rigid controls so there is less chance of problems. Point on this predicted path: Time to cull the herd.

Climate change is going to transform the face of the earth. Things are already changing: huge surges of migrating populations; significant changes in our experience of seasonal weather over periods of time. Droughts, floods, quakes, fires, winds, shifting water tables are transforming the surface of the globe. Populations, which have to respond to environmental pressures, will redistribute themselves in new patterns. It’s been that way though since the beginning of man’s struggle to survive. 

Don't expect that knowledge will make the actual experience of history wrenching any easier.