{"id":45898,"date":"2019-05-03T11:37:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T16:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45898"},"modified":"2019-05-03T11:37:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T16:37:04","slug":"environmental-crisis-oil-geopolitics-and-the-trump-diversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45898","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Crisis, Oil Geopolitics and the Trump Diversion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/05\/03\/environmental-crisis-oil-geopolitics-and-the-trump-diversion\/\">Environmental Crisis, Oil Geopolitics and the Trump Diversion<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/01\/1DCCF078-3F3E-4894-B3A0-BADC4F92594B.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-108831\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">America in 2019 is a very strange place. The problems of the age: looming environmental calamity, the threat of nuclear annihilation and accumulating class tensions, keep being shoved to the side through diversionary tactics. No sooner had a range of left programs been consolidated under the banner of a Green New Deal than establishment Democrats and their partners in misdirection made it known that \u2018stopping Trump\u2019 was their only priority. As priorities go, this one speaks to the limitations of its proponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in the land that time hasn\u2019t forgotten, environmental calamity has been a growing threat for three centuries now. Its growth rate accelerated after WWII along with the threat of nuclear annihilation. Class tensions have been escalating since the 1970s as neoliberalism has diminished the public sphere and accrued wealth and income to those who benefit from social destruction. Given the singular source and its persistence through periods in which either Republicans or Democrats exercised control, systemic drivers are the only explanation left standing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"181\" height=\"306\" src=\"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image.png 181w, https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-177x300.png 177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Graph: Capitalist countries produce CO2 emissions; the Global South bears the impact in terms of global warming. In environmental terms, capitalist production is class warfare where the rich get richer by making the poor poorer. On the right side of the graph is the relationship of GDP to CO2 emissions. On the left is the economic impact of CO2 emissions on those who didn\u2019t produce it. By forcing costs, in terms of global warming, onto the Global South, people who see no benefit from capitalist production bear its costs. Source: Diffenbaugh, Burke Standford.edu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rational reason for suggesting that these problems preceded Donald Trump\u2019s tenure as President is to posit that because he didn\u2019t cause them, they won\u2019t disappear when he leaves office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental Crisis, Oil Geopolitics and the Trump Diversion Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair America in 2019 is a very strange place. The problems of the age: looming environmental calamity, the threat of nuclear annihilation and accumulating class tensions, keep being shoved to the side through diversionary tactics. 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