Trump officials are visiting Alaska to discuss a gas pipeline and oil drilling

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5. How sad it is that we're banking on

a poor corporate profit-loss statement to keep them from raping the Earth even more than they have. This country is gonna be so far behind in technology of all kinds we'll spend decades trying to play catch up -- if we can ever catch up with the rest of the world. The magats want the world to not only stand still, but to go back to their imagined heyday of the 1950's (hint: it wasn't the best of times for anyone except white men). But it was a simpler time AFATC, with well defined gender roles that (they think) were adhered to most of the time. They forget about all the women trying to fight for a job, and being shuttled into "female" specific jobs.

We've gone from Radio to TV to the Internet, each time enlarging our world a little bit more until it truly IS a global community. This, they cannot stand. They lose their "specialness" if we do this. They're so anti-globalism that they'll cut off their nose to spite their face, just to try to get people to get back to that imagined time... where everything except church was closed on Sunday, thanks to the Blue Laws; and you didn't dare NOT go to church! I'm afraid at this point, if we were put into a "Don't Look Up" situation, people would actually totally ignore all evidence and just "not look up!"