Stephan:   The climate related devastation is far greater than you would guess from the media coverage, which is now entirely focused on Irma. What's going on in Houston is hardly discussed now, and the wild fires that are sweeping across the central and western United States have hardly been mentioned. Here's something on the fires. The main point that I have not heard anyone on television mention, nor any print reporter write about is that this is the beginning. All of these disasters are related to climate change. This is what we are going to be seeing more and more of. We are not prepared for what is coming, and we are not doing  the things we should be doing to prepare or even better to remediate what is going to happen. Why? Because Republicans at the federal and state level don't even believe climate change is real. But Mother earth couldn't care less about what politicians believe; the earth's great meta-systems will not be denied.