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You’ve heard the line, “Nero fiddled while Rome burned.” AI says it’s not true. What is true, though, is that President Donald Trump publicly denies that global warming is happening. That in spite of planet Earth burning, both literally (with more widespread and more severe wildfires across the world) and figuratively (with high temperature records being routinely broken, ocean temperatures rising, glaciers melting, severe droughts, and more damaging tornadoes and hurricanes). He even adds “fuel to the fire” with wanting to burn more coal (more pollution and more carbon dioxide).
He has abdicated his responsibility as president to try to make things better. Granted, one person or even one country alone can’t solve the problem, but Trump has disassociated himself and America from other countries that recognize the problem and have agreed to at least try to alleviate the problem. The Republican Party is also showing no leadership and is contributing to the problem by abdicating its responsibility to provide the necessary constitutional checks on a president as I see as “out of control.”
Gordon Canning
Ripley