Letter

In response to Sultanistic or neo-fascist? President Trump and 21st century ideologyhttps://j

Ignoring the real issues

Attempting to classify the brand of lunacy or megalomania that besets Donald Trump may be great fun for academics and will undoubtedly yield several neologisms and a flood of learned articles. But it will not save humanity from the universal emergency now approaching at dreadful speed.

A business-as-usual hothouse Earth combined with a toxic, collapsing environment, deepening scarcities of water, soil and food, fresh pandemics, overpopulation and the assault on civil society by the billionaire “tech bro” fraternity, are coming together to ensure civilisational collapse before 2050. Maybe worse.

Against this, all Trump’s antics, however bizarre are but a distraction from the main game. Yet every country in the world now seems intent on being drawn into this gigantic diversion from the impending crash. It shows what useless things countries are - and how little they really understand the world in which they live.

— Julian Cribb from Canberra, ACT