I submit for consideration, LH, that you are not addressing the actual changes in climate, but what one Atlantic Monthly writer called the "psychological climate of our perceptions". That is, of course, a climate much harder to change than the physical one. The psychological climate has its own toxins, such as BS, political brouhahaha and hyper-emotive histrionics, all of which cause it to freeze more solidly over time and increase its net resistance to acceleration in any direction.


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