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Letter to the Editor

To the Editor:

A daily email comes to my inbox from The Collapse Chronicle, “Documenting the on­going climate crisis, mass extinctions, and decline and fall of late stage capitalism.” It is comprised of headlines and links to stories from a wide variety of media sources.

A sampling of just a few of the headlines from the April 10 email demonstrates how the current administration is intensifying the collapse-in-progress:

“White House ends funding for key US cli­mate body: ‘No coming back from this’” – The Guardian

“Trump Administration Cuts Princeton Funding to Study Climate Change, Claiming It Creates ‘Climate Anxiety’” – New York Times

“Trump takes aim at city and state climate laws in executive order” – The Guardian

“New Trump Orders Aim to Keep Coal Pow­er Alive, Despite Climate and Economic Costs” – Inside Climate News

“America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era” – The Atlantic

I’ve chosen only well-known media sourc­es as examples (there are also many lesser known and Substack essays) and by no means do they all target a political entity or even only one country. This is a nonpartisan and global phenomenon. But at this critical time in the human story, I wish the USA could be a leader in the global effort to mitigate suffer­ing instead of prioritizing actions which will only serve to aggravate and intensify it.

Fran Kaliher

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