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What can citizens do about this? Trump hates women, so I'll donate to PP. Trump hates minorities, so I'll donate to the ACLU. Trump hates the actual physical earth - so what do I do about that?

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http://climatesciencedefensefund.org/

Edit: Also, I don't know if you happen to be extremely wealthy, but this was an interesting read. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/business/energy-environmen...

Call your senator and tell them not to confirm but to fight against the nomination. Donate to NGOs supporting climate efforts. Tell your friends to do the same.

My energy utility allows me some choice in the generation source. You may have the option of voting with your dollar. You'll likely have a much larger impact if you convince your employer to switch to greener sources of energy.

I became a sustaining member of the Sierra Club.

You can donate to people who can take you to Mars

How screwed up would the Earth need to be for this to be remotely an option though?

At the rate we're messing up this planet, we'll need to find another planet real fast - relatively speaking, off course.

But have no bother, it won't be in your lifetime. Not this lifetime anyway.

The thing that puzzles me about this argument is any planet we find is likely to have a worse atmosphere than even a polluted Earth. If we're able to terraform Mars or whatever then we can likely also reverse the effects of global warming on Earth.

> At the rate we're messing up this planet, we'll need to find another planet real fast - relatively speaking, off course.

We can't even handle the planet we're already on, how in hell do you think we can terraform an entire separate planet? We're still only scratching the surface of understanding ecosystems today, the big thing these days is starting to try and understand how our internal microbiomes affect us personally, we're nowhere near understanding microbiotic effects on ecosystems at large. And all CES attempts so far have been abject failures.

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