The Future of Global Warming and Climate Change

 We have just had four years with an American president who did not care about climate change or global warming. He showed little interest in race relations, global coherence, equality for the common man. He took funding away from activities that bond Americans with the rest of the world, and focused more on elevating the economy, which is good, of course, but did he follow through with everything he promised? In the end we could all see this answer: not really. Now there is a new president in office with whom the political industry is incredibly familiar and spent the first day or two in his new position to "undo" some of the decisions made by his predecessor. So, then, we must ask about the future of global warming and climate change, an issue that will stare our sons and daughters and grandchildren directly in the face for decades. Is the economy, with all its infrastructure-building might, its glory to all those who can attain it, worth looking past the empty promises of restoring business and bringing back manufacturing, in order to bring forth an economy that over centuries will be short-lived anyway? If you think in terms of the youth of America, a country perhaps just entering puberty, then yes. But if you have the wherewithal to look into the future many years, no, centuries ahead like many European countries, then absolutely not. One shortcoming of America is that in its brazen youth tends to forget about the long and hard-lived lessons of its forefathers - countries like Greece, Italy, Turkey, Japan, China - and only thinks of the here and now. Democratic presidents like our current one know that this is true and therefore want to maintain good relations with the rest of the world. For it is only then, after growth and downfall, periods of sunshine and drought and war and famine and incredible lives lost lost during a pandemic, and bouncing back numerous times, it is only then that America can be looked up to, for real this time.