Climate change is awesome
by digby
Your Secretary of State, ladies and gentlemen:
The top diplomat claimed that the climate “always changes,” and so “societies reorganize, we move to different places, we develop technology and innovation.”
Pompeo also suggested that the risks of climate change wouldn’t be so bad anyway.
“If waters rise — I was just in the Netherlands, all below sea level, right?” Pompeo said. “Living a wonderful, thriving economic situation.”
“The world will be successful. I’m convinced,” he continued. “We will figure out responses to this that address these issues in important and fundamental ways.”
In May, Pompeo praised rising sea levels caused by climate change as a boon for trade opportunities.
“Steady reductions in sea ice are opening new passageways and new opportunities for trade,” Pompeo said during a speech at an international summit on environmental protection. “This could potentially slash the time it takes to travel between Asia and the West by as much as 20 days.”
I wonder how Pompeo will feel when everyone moves to his home state of Kansas.
This is such a thick-headed way for a Secretary of State to speak. Doesn’t he know that mass migration caused by climate change is likely to cause untold misery and even war? It’s all too dumb to even think about.
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