Fast-growing trees are taking over the forests of the future and putting biodiversity and climate resilience under press

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4. I know the feeling...

The fact that the “fascists” are actively fighting efforts to combat “Climate Change” elevates them on my list of priorities.

For some time now, I’ve been telling my representatives and senators that our top priority must be survival. Highest priority is the survival of life on the planet. Next, the survival of humanity. Then the survival of individuals. I’m a big fan of “Democracy,” but there are other political systems, if switching to a “benevolent dictator” (a “philosopher royal” if you will) would help with my top priorities, I would reluctantly accede.

With a six-year-old in charge of our country, I’ve pretty much given up all hope that we can turn back the slower death. I believe there is a significant chance that we may face a much more rapid death, due to a nuclear exchange.

https://turboscribe.ai/transcript/share/4422534834081521519/HWE18owsC2u8E5u2HpZNikyBdermlV2YSwGlTEPKJJw/donald-trump-and-elon-musk-full-transcript-august-12-2024-https-x-com-i-spaces-1nakepnklwoxl

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Donald Trump
You know, it's very interesting. You use the word global warming and today they use the word climate change because, you know, you have some places that go up and so they were getting themselves in a little trouble with the word global warming because not every place is warming. Some places are going the opposite direction.

But, you know, I'm sort of waiting for you to come up with solar panels on the roofs of your cars and on the trunks of the cars. And it just seems like something that at some point you will come up with. I'm sure you'll be the first, but it would seem that a solar panel on the roofs, you know, on flat surfaces, on certain surfaces might be good, at least in certain areas of the country where you have the, or the world where you have the sun.

But I would think, and I have no idea because that's not my world, but I would think that this would be something that would be interesting. But, you know, the one thing that I don't understand is that people talk about global warming or they talk about climate change, but they never talk about nuclear warming. And for me, that's an immediate problem because you have, as I said, five countries where you have major nuclear and, you know, probably some others are getting there and that's very dangerous.

That's where you need a strong American president because you just, you don't want to have this proliferation. But you have five countries and getting more, you know, China is much less than us right now, but they're gonna catch us sooner than people think. They're way lower.

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Well, actually, “nuclear winter” is a larger risk. Sure, the targets of the warheads will get really really hot, really really quickly, but that will be a relatively localized, short-term effect. The climatic effects of “nuclear winter” would (according to theory) be widespread, or global, and last for years… (Not the solution to “global warming” I was hoping for.)