Stephan:   This trend: government's denial and failure to deal appropriately with climate change remediation constitutes a national psychosis. A true madness. It is completely irrational in terms of the future; but supremely fine tuned for maximum short term profit at an obscene level for the few, but at great cost of the many. Like so many others stories I have published recently, this account reminds me of Jared Diamond's book Collapse, and its story of the last tree on Easter Island being cut down, by a man representing a culture that worshipped trees. Or Babara Tuchman's March of Folly the history of how Europe and the United States were drawn into World War I, a war nobody wanted and none could change enough to stop. We seem incapable of learning the lesson because we repeat it over and over, and we are doing it again with climate change.