El Paso, TX should consider having the ostrich for a mascot.
After three days of unusually cold temperatures, the citizens are uncomfortable.
However, it is worth pointing out that the discomfort is even greater across the border in the virtual US colony called Mexico....
(Do I go too far when I speak of Mexico as a "colony"? Did NAFTA hurt Mexico? Did US businesses profit more than Mexican citizens? Does the USA government support the Mexican military?)
But so far as I can tell from a quick inspection of the local newspaper, no one is mentioning the fact that global warming/climate change means an increase
in weather events which were previously regarded as "unusual"...
The discomfort in El Paso is only a small sample of what is to come in the future if the United States continues its policy of science-denial, putting its head in the sand and ignoring the fact of climate change/anthropogenic global warming...
how sad
Now would be the perfect time for the local newspaper to have a week long feature, interviewing local scientists (employed by the state university, i.e.., the taxpayer
funded University of Texas at El Paso) explaining how unusual weather will become more common, and why it is urgent to make changes now...
but that would be too much to expect from a stagnant outpost of empire....
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