Commentary: We dont need AI to threaten the future of humanity. Weve got Trump's climate policies

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Set us as preferred You need a boost, right?We’re living under a dark cloud, with a steady downpour of graft, thuggery and baloney.There’s the raffling of presidential pardons and the attacks on reporters for doing their jobs, the clownish trade war with Canada, the bungled disaster in Iran, the petty obsessions with the ballroom and the Kennedy Center, the hogwash about a stolen election, the attacks on immigrants and the shameless presidential profiteering while working people suffer the cost of Trump’s countless broken promises.I could go on, and I will.But rest assured, I have not forgotten about the boost I promised.For all the affronts, nothing strikes me as more sinister than the Trump administration’s ambitious assault on the planet.

Despite nearly daily headlines about the global calamity of overheated oceans, melting glaciers, stark weather transformations and species extinction, Trump keeps shoveling more coal onto a fire that will rage long after he’s dead and gone.He’s gutted environmental protections and scientific research and dismantled clean energy initiatives.Now his administration is rolling back limits on power plant emissions, attempting to open the California coast to more oil drilling and sabotaging the state’s ambitious goals on emission controls and electric vehicle conversion.

We don’t need AI to threaten the future of humanity.We’ve got Trump.It’s tempting to duck under the covers and wait for the nightmare to end, but the good news is that a lot of people are standing up rather than rolling over, rebelling against the ignorance and callous disregard that threatens our most precious and fragile shared inheritance.In August, hundreds showed up to defend California’s authority to govern its own coast at a Santa Monica hearing of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, and...