He’s suggesting that our contemporary problems are exclusively earthbound, and that if we were to look at them from a viewpoint that encompasses the cosmic, we would find them more manageable. Putting aside that this is a swing and a miss at addressing the actual issue, there’s an important rhetorical gesture here. “In billions of years,” he said, “the sun is going to actually grow and encompass the Earth, right? So global warming is in our future.”
presidential candidate Gary Johnson gave an interesting response. When asked about climate change at a 2011 appearance at the National Press Club, former U.S.
