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Our Chernobyl Is Coming. We’re Handling It Like the Soviets.
The Trump war on science is carried out with the same communist techniques that make the HBO drama so chilling. This time the whole planet is at risk.
The Trump administration is engaged in an attack on scientific truth every bit as brazen as anything in the history of the Soviet Union as it sweeps aside all warnings about the consequences of climate change.
Indeed, climate change can be seen like a slow motion version of Chernobyl on a far larger scale—a runaway failure of control over forces of enormous energy with the entire planet at risk. In responding to it the White House has come to resemble a kind of bastard combination of deregulated capitalism & Soviet-style perversion of language, an American version of the politburo.
Clive Irving is senior consulting editor at Condé Nast Traveler, specializing in aviation; and the author of
Wide-Body: The Triumph of the 747 (Morrow).
