But for many Trump-supporting farmers and ranchers, the president's decisions - even when they hit them economically - deserve the benefit of the doubt.

"We've all known this about Trump. He just kind of could be a little 'shoot, fire, aim,'" Wolfinger said. "I wish you could, you know, put the gun back and holster it and then think about it."

But, he said, "I think he's, for the most part, trying to run this country in the right direction".

diesel, lumber and steel costs. The cruelty and horrors are all ok I guess.

But for many Trump-supporting farmers and ranchers, the president's decisions - even when they hit them economically - deserve the benefit of the doubt.

"We've all known this about Trump. He just kind of could be a little 'shoot, fire, aim,'" Wolfinger said. "I wish you could, you know, put the gun back and holster it and then think about it."

But, he said, "I think he's, for the most part, trying to run this country in the right direction".

diesel, lumber and steel costs. The cruelty and horrors are all ok I guess.

It may seem implausible to argue that liberals who are working hard to enable capital investments in clean energy could be the allies of the petroauthoritarian right. But they are exactly that if they support expanding fossil fuels—or even if they advocate for an “all of the above” energy approach, which means expanding both clean energy and fossil fuels like “natural gas” (which, let’s be real, should accurately be called “methane gas”). We could blanket the entire planet in solar panels, and power every last data center with nuclear power, but if we continued to use coal, oil, and gas, the temperature would continue to climb with no end in sight. Dismissing that physics as irrelevant, even if you purport to agree that “climate change is real,” is obviously a form of disavowal that borders on denial.

What allies the authoritarian right and the center-left is their commitment to protecting capital above all. Decarbonizing will likely create millions of new jobs in the U.S. and establish new industries and services worldwide. Economic studies show that phasing out fossil fuels and creating a net-zero economy inside ecological boundaries will lead to better economic outcomes than doing nothing. Climate impacts are already contributing to inflation, costing U.S. households between $400 and $900 per year, on average. And continued climate change will likely curtail economic growth. By one estimate it could make growth roughly 23 percent smaller than it would have been otherwise; by another it could worst-case contract the global economy 50 percent over the next 40-50 years. And these economic effects are already starting to occur. The costs of this summer’s heat waves and fires in Europe are projected actually to zero out the continent’s entire projected growth for 2026. But none of that poses much of a current financial threat to members of the global capital faction, which is to say ruling-class asset holders and rentiers, who can afford the current costs of climate change while watching their stock portfolios grow to record highs from the AI boom / bubble. However, asset holders and rentiers do face an economic threat from the phaseout of fossil fuels, and for the fossil fuel industry itself, that threat is existential.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20261014132200/https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/liberals-cant-address-the-climate-crisis-because-it-means-confronting-capitalism

Additional reading, https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/law/liberalism-and-climate-change (arc)

Liberalism, a political philosophy that emerged during the Enlightenment, emphasizes individual rights, reason, and the importance of civil society. It promotes the idea that individuals should have autonomy and be free from coercion, with a significant focus on private property as a means to self-preservation and social progress. This framework influences contemporary debates on climate change, as liberal perspectives vary widely.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-constitutionalism/article/climate-change-and-the-challenge-to-liberalism/C32914822B2B7326ACCFEE4B0C5AA519 (arc)

Particularly in light of their global reach, their specific behavioural implications and interpretations and the related obligations to act remain debatable and the overwhelming institutionalization of the neoliberal market economy makes clear and effective responses to climate change virtually impossible within liberal societies.

A fourth and final citizenship assessment found that Mx B was an Australian citizen.

what a cluster fcuk..

Mx B is not alone. The ombudsman report found 30 out of the 4,247 people placed into immigration detention between July 2024 and June 2025 were unlawfully detained.

Faaaaarkkkkk

This summer, Australia could face some of its most extreme wildfire conditions ever due to the severity of an ever-strengthening El Niño. And for many Australians, memories of catastrophic natural disasters are still painfully fresh.

The Black Summer wildfires of 2019–20 caused destruction on a scale that had never been seen in Australia, with more than 3,000 homes destroyed.

why we moved to Tasmania as climate refugees; off a flood plain, at 220mASL, zero bush fire risk and onto a wet area for hopefully some drought tolerance. While no where's safe and as a nation we've decided to do nothing of consequence, I didn't want to be at the front if the queue

And the 2022 major floods devastated hundreds of communities across multiple states, becoming the costliest insurance event in Australian history.

The cost of insurance is, however, skyrocketing—or for some, becoming unavailable—and government needs to work with insurers to address this increasing problem.

that's... mostky impossible

good luck!

We have documented and quantified the impacts of climate change on our planet's sensitive ice sheets for decades, but a mounting realization gained in recent years of what is happening on the undersides of glaciers like Thwaites is leading to an even greater sense of alarm," said co-author Eric Rignot, UC Irvine professor of Earth system science.

Greater sense of alarm you say ?

"Most projections to date have struggled to match the rapidity of the mass loss because of missing physics; our new model with more complete physics is able to match the record and then produces projections that are twice as large as before.

The protest, organised by Across Victoria Alliance, brought around 300 CFA volunteers, farmers, One Nation and National party supporters, and a variety of renewable energy opponents into Melbourne on the sunny Friday morning.

Speakers, mainly men standing inside a large delivery truck, used Trumpian language to play up city-country divisions and went hard on militaristic calls for a war on transmission lines, renewable energy and data centres.

I'm disappointed that so many farmers and CFA (Country Fire Authority volunteers) who are going the be the most affected by climate change fronting this anti-renewables rally.

Seaside communities along the east coast of England have lost at least 183 homes to coastal erosion and landslides over the past 16 years, figures obtained by the Guardian reveal.

Coastal erosion is the gradual wearing away and retreat of the sea shoreline, which can destabilise cliffs and eventually force homes and infrastructure to be demolished before they collapse. While it is a natural process, scientists said the climate crisis was accelerating the retreat of the UK’s shores.

A GYBC spokesperson said: “Last winter, the dunes in Hemsby saw about 50% of the erosion predicted for the entirety of the next 30 years. More than 10 metres of land was lost in just over 12 months.

seen in a market in Malaysia

Powerful waves thrashed communities along California's southern coast Friday, damaging homes and sending water cascading through streets as residents braced for more potential damage wrought by Tropical Storm Rachel.

You kind of get the fingerprints of climate change everywhere you look," Marc Alessi, a climate scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, told AFP.

Every year, Hu sets aside 10 per cent of his income to support global health and development causes.

He says the financial pledge gives him agency when modern life can make it feel as though there is little: "whether it is politicians that make decisions about your life, or an algorithm that shows you what it wants".