Stephan:   I found this article very interesting for several reasons. First, it is on the Voice of America site, so it is an official presentation of the U.S.. I found that odd given that Trump and his administration don't seem to even believe in climate change. I suspect it didn't get passed up the line, and so represents the thinking of people in the United States Information Agency who are smart enough to think about this issue without being blinded by greed and self-interest. Second, I found it interesting because it confirms what I have been predicting here on SR for years: given the failure of the federal government to proactively protect Americans from the catastrophe that is rapidly reshaping the world, states and localities, where elected officials really have to govern, are taking up the slack. I see this as part of a shift in political power, and a datapoint in the growing states rights trend. Blue states are rapidly losing patience with the moronic Republican governance of Red value states. Republicans cannot govern to produce wellbeing because they are all in the christofascist neoliberal economics trance. Third, I want you to look at the chart, and get clear in your own mind that humanity as a whole is not doing nearly enough to avoid the catastrophe of climate change, so it is going to sweep over us like a tsunami.