While recent heat waves were causing
thousands of deaths, the Trump administration was busy
dismantling policies that regulate greenhouse gases on the theory they don’t harm human health.
As the United States lurches toward isolationism and authoritarianism, its political problems are now bleeding into pocketbook anxieties that Trump's policies will torpedo economic growth, both domestically and globally.
A new study
estimates that global heating will push billions of people outside the comfortable range of temperature and weather in which we have evolved.