I was fortunate to view the total solar eclipse from a remote ridgetop southeast of Antelope, Ore. It was spectacular. I’ve been equally impressed by the reports of so many Americans embracing this celestial event — and thereby showing some faith in science (which, of course, predicted the exact path and timing of the eclipse’s totality).
Yet some Americans, including President Donald Trump, distrust and disparage science and its documentation of climate change caused by humans. The disconnect between embracing the eclipse while dumping on science at first seems startling.
I suppose that there is little reason to be startled, however, because the motives of Trump and his wealthy cronies are entirely self-serving. They have no connection whatsoever to the realities faced by the rest of us, whether we look skyward toward an eclipse or forward into the future.
