Burning down the house — global environmental consequences of tyranny in the United States

Stephen Mulkey
6 min readJun 18, 2020
NRDC 2019

As a nation we have passed a political tipping point. The effects of decades of divisive rhetoric from right wing media and craven zero-sum political manipulation of race and economics by the GOP will be with us for decades to come. With the election of Trump our nation has been consumed by the negativity of his corruption, denial of…

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Stephen Mulkey

Environmental scientist and educator; forest and climate change ecologist.