> climate change will happen (the trump administration is preparing for it more seriously than any other)

This has to be satire surely.

We're gonna need that sense of humor as the climate shit hits the fan.

I mean in a way it's true. MAGA is a death cult and they want to hasten the apocalypse, which is why MAGA is such good bed fellows with US big tech as they too also want to hasten the apocalypse.

These people fervently believe that they will prosper once the earth is destroyed, so please trust that they will do everything in their lives to make it so.

You have no idea what you are talking about. Armed lifeboat is a serious climate change strategy. You and I might not like it. But we are heading down the path very seriously.

> Armed lifeboat is a serious climate change strategy.

Is deliberately sinking the ship faster so we have to board said lifeboat much sooner part of that strategy?

> But we are heading down the path very seriously.

Being pushed at gunpoint, more like.

No it is a scientifically valid strategy. It contends

1) we are past the point of no return in climate change

2) climate change will radically change the nations of the earth and the viability of territories cause mass upheaval

3) this is inevitable and coordination will not work as you can’t expect nations drowning to act rationally or cooperatively.

4) prepare in any way you can as fast and aggressively as possible.

> 1) we are past the point of no return in climate change

Hmm...I wonder who did that?

Is paying taxpayer money to shut down already approved windfarms a good way to prepare for climate change? A few extra years to prepare that "armed lifeboat" are completely unnecessary?

The focus towards the north (Greenland/Canada) is one potential successful post-climate-change strategy.

Control over the opened trade routes and natural resources as the northern oceans thaw will be a highly contested global issue, the type of issue that can lead to war.

Of course, this is a more charitable interpretation of long term plans than might be warranted.

Not charitable. It has been repeatedly openly stated. How much more clear could the admin be?

Read your original comment and disagreed, but you have changed my mind. Trump is tackling climate change response more than any other president, he's just doing it in the most psychotic way possible. Threatening sovereign nations, antagonizing Asia, etc.

I agree that Canada and the EU should've been more responsible for their own defense. Hope going forward they are and cut out the USA as much as possible.

There is only one country that Canada needs to be secure from and they just used up most of their missiles in Iran.

You have never been "the worlds's backstop".

If that is so onerous, multiple EU countries should get nuclear missiles and make an EU NATO. But you don't want that. You want the dollar propped up irrationally by your military promises and you want NATO and non-NATO proxies against Russia ans China.

The promises incidentally fail yet again in Iran, where the Saudis already make other treaties with Turkey and Pakistan.