***. “The Trump White House continued its attacks on climate science and scientists, pulling out of the Paris climate accords and recruiting into government scientists who held contrarian or fringe views on the role of human activity in global warming.” [ Peter Hotez: “The Deadly Rise Of Anti-Science” ]

This post presents excerpts from. “The Dead Zones….By mid-century, many places in the United States may be uninhabitable” [ Vann Newkirk II; The Atlantic; December, 2025 ]:

9] “..our present government is actively working to worsen global warming and make communities less resilient to its effects. It is working to make the darkest futures more likely. It is possible, even considering the hatchet blows thatn Donald Trump has delivered to the federal bureaucracy, public institutions, and the Constitution, that his legacy will b most felt in our climate.” [!!think on the magnitude of this statement…]

18] “All of this could create even better conditions than those today for the kind of transactional authoritarian government that Trump is trying to establish.” [***. think – by worsening global warming crisis – Trump & the far-right power behind him – want to make Americans. – YOU. – more desperate & vulnerable – so YOU “need’ a dictator to save” you ****]

16] “..bit by bit, the American economy and culture will likely be transformed by climate attrition and the redistribution of people. Southern states will lose residents and dynamism.”

5] “..whole regions will be thinned out and impoverished…without insurance, people cannot get mortgages, and so most cannot buy houses…some places are already becoming economic “no-go” zones.”

6]. “..we should expect more food deserts, fewer libraries, and fewer small businesses..expect that, with a larger share of municipal budgets going to disaster mitigation and repair, city and county services will suffer or disappear. Even as local taxes rise, “service deserts” will spread.” … These are the dead zones.” [ And!!! – Trump’s new budget wants to cut federal support to local governments !!!!!!!!!!! ]

***. “[Trump’s]..agenda is codified by Project 2025…the thorough dismantling of climate policy in the United States through eliminating agencies overseeing policies relating to energy or the environment and repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act and other congressionally enacted climate measures.” [Micheal Mann, Peter Hotez: “Science Under Siege”]

1]. “..the future toward which we are heading will mean heartbreak for millions. Many people will go in search of new homes in cooler, more predictable places…leave behind…”dead zones.” Should the demolition of America’s rule of law continue, authoritarianism and climate change wll reinforce each other, and a vicious spiral from which it will be difficult to exit.”

2] “Just as.. [Eaton].. fire victims began trying to recover, Donald Trump came back into power. Deep cuts at FEMA and other agencies targeted much of the federal machinery and sources of money that were supposed to help.”

3]. “One problem is who will underwrite disaster risks as they grow. Seven of the 12 largest home insurers in California…have already limited their coverage or stopped taking new policies there.”

4] “There are parallels to the 2008 financial crisis…and “insurance deserts,” where policies are becoming impossible to find or prohibitively expensive…threatens a “collapse in property values with the potential to trigger a full-scale financial crisis similar to what occurred in 2008.”

*** “… their scientific colleagues were increasingly finding evidence that capitalism was failing in a crucial aspect: it was failing to protect the natural environment upon which all life. – free or not. – ultimately depends… The free market was causing problems…that the free market did not know how to solve. The government had a potential remedy – regulation – but that flew in the face of the capitalist ideal.” [ Naomi Oreskes, Eric Conway: “Merchants of Doubt” ]

7] “Private equity firms are deeply embedded in the disaster-recovery industry…Investors come into distressed real estate markets and transform them, buying up land on the cheap and flipping residential homes into rental units…Essential services are being slowly ceded by the public to the private sector in places under climate stress.”

8]. “..Biden’s climate agenda was the most robust ever attempted in this country, but even he did not sign enough laws to produce the fair share of decarbonization that America would need to deliver in order to avert 2 degrees Celsius of warming..”

10] “Trump’s EPA administrator Lee Zeldin, came into office with the intent, he said, of “driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion.”

***. “Two dozen states..sued the Environmental Protection Agency. – public health and welfare….EPA leader Lee Zeldin…says wiping out that finding will save money.” [Matthew Daly: “Minnesota joins suit vs. EPA over repeal of climate finding”; Associated Press; 3/20/26]. [Note: polluting companies save money. – BUT. – YOUR health may be sabotaged by Trump DICTATORSHIP policies.]

11] “Trump has even thrown wrenches intovthe energy-transition plans of other countries.”

12] “As the administration accelerates climate change, it has also moved to weaken the country’s infrastructure for dealing with climate disruptions. Trump scrapped a program…He axed rules…The national Weather Service is a shadow of its former self..”

13] “..global warming is supercharging ..[Miami’s]..already daunting heat…the spike in overnight temperatures…The county is the epicenter of an incipient “extreme heat belt” that is reshaping concepts of seasonality and livability in the United States.”

***. ‘..2007. The internet is flooded with the assertion that Carson was a mass murderer, worse than Hitler….In the demonizing of Rachel Carson, free marketers realized that if you could convince people that an example of successful government regulation wasn’t, in fact, successful. – that it was actually a mistake. – you could strengthen the argument against regulation in general.” [ Oreskes. &. Conway: “Merchants of Doubt” ]

14] “The geography of real climate risk. – which includes not just the effects of weather and disasters, but also the abilities of communities to withstand them. – looks roughly similar to the geographies of poverty and race.”

15]. “Within the U.S. today, people are again moving because of disasters, and because of the slow-grind attrition of heat, flooding, and rising insurance rates.”

17] “The worst climate disruptions will happen beyond U.S. borders, but they will put pressure on American society nonetheless. Migration to the southern border, perhaps the most powerful current in American politics today, is already being driven partly by ecological collapses in Central American farm communities.”

*** “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve become bamboozled long enough, We tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle…Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” [Carl Sagan]i