Ben Goloff is national climate strategist at the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund.
It’s 2029. JD Vance has been president for six months following Donald Trump ’s second term in office. You’re waking up in a storm shelter in Georgia. You cowered all night as Hurricane Don smashed its way across the state. You open the door to utter devastation—buildings destroyed, whole communities washed away, hundreds of people dead or missing. Despite its Category 5 strength, Hurricane Don hit the Atlantic coast with little warning.
Superstorms, extreme wildfires, category 5 hurricanes have become the new normal.Back here in the present day, just days before Election Day, we should be clear-eyed about the consequences of a second Trump term. We just saw Hurricane Milton intensify in the Gulf of Mexico at one of the fastest rates ever on record.
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