Fuck you, Mr. Harper

Why are the decisions about the planet's long-term health being made by old fucks who'll be dead before the consequences of their ignorance hit home?

I can think of no more misanthropic act than to eat the future, and that's what we're doing by failing to take serious action against climate change. And yet we've just elected a moron who denies the science because it's just too much reality for his sub-median IQ and religious zealotry. Funny how often those things go together.

I wish there were easy answers, but there aren't. The world's getting hotter, weather's getting more extreme, we're on the cusp of an unsustainable population, and there's little being done about it. We're pitched against mega-corporations whose interests are catered to by bought politicians; we've got active dissemination of misinformation from media outlets whose viewership is either too stupid or lazy to do the research themselves.

I really wish I knew what to do, because I'm truly scared for the future of my country and our planet.