Stephan:   Here is an account of Vladimir Putin's views on climate change as recounted by a Rightist publication. I am publishing it because it accords with what I was told a few weeks ago by several prominent Russians with whom I spent the week discussing this and other issues. They noted particularly that the sanctions the U.S. imposed crashed the Russian economy and made their petroleum sector all the more critical -- another case of poor geopolitical choices -- and that drove Putin to ignore climate change. This Russian position, combined with our own Theocratic Rightists in the U.S. Congress who are climate deniers, conjoin to undercut the hope humanity will deal with climate change in an adult and responsible way. I say again the 2016 election is going to determine the world your children and grandchildren and you live in. If social progressives who are wellness oriented do not vote in massive numbers it is going to get very nasty.