Trump's Tariffs Applauded by Mother Nature
A major cause and symbol of the worsening our climate hell is globalization of trade. The millions of shipping containers represent more the 90% of the unneeded carbon dioxide that is accelerating climate change. Because of Trump's tariffs, container shipping from China had reportedly fallen by 50% with an inevitable concomitant drop in carbon dioxide production.
Measured in generated carbon dioxide, the cost of humanity to Mother Nature, God's accountant, has two parts:
Our attics, basements, and garages are full of former must-have wants ... a deadly legacy of rising CO2 levels. Instead of stopping our climate suicide, politicians are approving increased burning of fossil fuels to please our mental soma. This included increased globalization via bigger cargo container ships. Cargo ships have been proven to be deadlier to humanity than nuclear bombs.
The true cost of anything is human time as symbolized in currencies. An item's cost is not funny numbers on funny paper. Measuring the cost of climate change in currency misses how that cost is lost human time. Climate-change refugees, domestic and foreign, have had their time cheapend to null.
A gallon of gas saves time today. But, the true, full cost of gasoline is much higher over the long run. The full time cost is an effective loan with a long-term, escalating loan-shark interest rates in lost time. After we have combusted the tank of gasoline, we pay more time for the gas from Mother Nature's roulette of natural disasters.
We are our brothers' keepers. While our homes and jobs may be spared from fire, tornados, floods and hurricanes, our cost of living increases as we must pay for those who can no longer work.
Cheap imports also have expensive long-term costs when measured in time. Long after we finally pay-off the credit-card debts for Christmas, we continue to pay for the climate damage from buying our Christmas wants. With globalization of trade, both theists and atheists celebrate the birth of Christ by catalyzing more climate chaos akin to giving sugar to a diabetic. This celebration of killing our future includes the more than 130 million Christmas trees annually cut down and burned up each years--sequesters become festers.
Like most of Trump's disjointed gut reactions, his long-standing, simplistic obsession with tariffs is full of mis-understandings and falsehoods. He mis-understands why foreign goods became cheap. U.S. workers priced themselves out of the global market with union strikes and with muddled-class welfare. The major falsehood of tariffs is that they are "not a tax." Regardless of what a price increase is called, the consumer will have inflationary suffering.