Climate Change

We all spending many of trillions of $ per and not having much impact.

Well not trillions yet but it might well get there. But that's spread out across the planet and many years. And a relative pittance compared to the estimated costs of doing nothing.

There was a time when conservatives believed in the concept of insurance - being prudent as Poppy Bush would say. And that's what mitigation is here, a form of insurance. The overwhelming consensus of climatologists could be wrong, though the evidence gets stronger every year. But what if they're right? They seem to be very sure of themselves, with all their charts and graphs and data - fake news in your bizarro universe. But if they're right, and given that the endgame would be catastrophic, it might be prudent to try to mitigate the problem now while it's still relatively affordable and not too late. Putting your head in the sand is not an option. That's what Poppy would say.

Green energy is a'comin' whether you like it or not, even if all this climate-change stuff is hokey. It's simply a more intelligent option. The only question is if it will get here in time to save us all, or will Luddites delay and obstruct and slow-walk it until it's too late. With Trump and his minions I fear the latter.