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GWYNNE DYER: How Trump's drama is diverting attention from climate change

Trump's wars and blunders blot out everything else, leaving little talk about climate change - and we're almost to the point of no return

The US president, Donald J. (for Jesus) Trump, is a showman, and he knows how to keep the world’s attention by offering journalists shockingly good copy.

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He threatens a genocide: “A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight”.

He writes “Fuckin’ Strait” on a presidential post. (Note the tastefully dropped ‘g’ in Fuckin’ to show that he’s a Man of the People.)

But now that I have your attention, I’d like to draw it elsewhere: specifically, to the fact that the perpetual melodrama of Trump’s wars and other blunders blots out practically everything else on the news horizon.

However, he is not the most important and dangerous phenomenon we must deal with today.

What’s worse than Trump?

Trump’s wars are quite small affairs (2,200 dead Iranians, 100 dead Venezuelans and Cubans, 13 dead Americans), and there has never been any risk of a nuclear war: Iran has no nukes and has never even been near getting them. The US has........

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