It is kind of funny how much of the Trump administration’s agenda makes sense if you’re a “climate realist” preparing America to rule the new three degree world.

Annex Canada and Greenland? Sure, as the world gets warmer and Arctic resources open up we’re going to want those.

Tariffs to help American manufacturing? Famines and natural disasters are going to wreck world economies and scramble supply chains, so we need to be able to make it on our own.

Brutal immigration enforcement and performative cruelty towards migrants? The climate crisis is going to drive climate refugees north from Latin America at levels never seen before. We want migrants to be afraid to come to the United States. And we want Americans to hate migrants so they’ll be on board with turning them away.

(Same with cutting Social Security and Medicare and public benefits - we won’t be able to afford those luxuries in the coming crisis, so let’s get America used to the idea of not having them.)

More oil and gas and fossil fuel production? Why not? We’re preparing for the climate crisis, and other countries are not - the faster the climate changes, the more of an advantage we’ll have.

Even the fucking lumber emergency is understandable - if you think most of America’s forests are going to burn down in the next few decades anyway, the rational thing to do is salvage as much usable wood as you can before the forest fires get really bad and you lose that resource entirely.

I don’t think Trump would come up with this on his own, but “the world as we know it is ending and strong men must now make hard choices to save civilization” is exactly the narrative techbros like Musk would cream their jeans over. I wonder if Peter Thiel got into ecofacism in the last few years.