The article discusses wildfires in Spain that have caused deaths and evacuations, and connects them to broader climate change issues. It criticizes former President Donald Trump's climate policies, including increased ICE flight operations leading to higher carbon emissions, while noting that Republican states like Texas are advancing clean energy. The narrative also references the author's immigrant grandfather, contrasting Trump's anti-immigration stance with historical migration patterns.
As Mike Johnson Floats Social Security Cuts, Trustees Report Shows Harm of Trump Policies A firefighter works to extinguish a wildfire in the village of Vilaza, near Verin, Ourense province, northwestern Spain , on August 12, 2025.
A man died from burns and thousands of people were forced to evacuate as wildfires swept through parts of Spain, fueled by strong winds and a searing heat wave that has gripped the country for 10 days. Some of the very worst people history has devised have now landed on the beaches of our world, armed to the teeth, and intent on turning this planet into a heat zone. What a planet!
I only wish I could tell my grandfather about it. He arrived in this country, an immigrant from what’s now, in March 1888—or so his daughter, my Aunt Hilda, wrote me once upon a distant time. Here’s how she began that long-ago message to me: “Your grandfather, Moore Engelhardt, a boy of 16, arrived in New York from Europe in March 1888. It was during the famous blizzard, and after a sea voyage of about 30 days.
He had no money. He often said that he had a German 50-cent piece in his pocket when he landed. His trip had to be in the cheapest part of the ship—way down below steerage. Poor boy, I’m sure he was seasick a good deal of the time.
Since he was alone, he sort of attached himself to a family of a lot ofAs a boy of 14, he had, my aunt reported, challenged the local rabbi where he lived to give him back some of the money his father had donated to the rabbi—money his mother had made and that they needed just to live. And when the rabbi refused, he evidently hit him and then ran away from home. The rest, as they say, is history.
I barely knew him. He died when I was about five years old and I have only the faintest memory of standing beside him, holding his hand, while he leaned on his cane. But in the end, he managed to turn that 50 cents into a business in Brooklyn, New York.
He got clobbered in the Great Depression of the 1930s, and even built a couple of buildings in Brooklyn that he named after my dad and Hilda. Sometimes I wonder what he’d think about our strange Trumpian world today.
After all, we’re on an increasingly disturbed planet, where, in some places, as thegrow ever fiercer, sea levels rise, and... well, you get the idea... ever more people are finding that they simply can’t stay in their worlds anymore and migration of the sort my grandfather once engaged in is And President Donald J. Trump doesn’t like that one little bit. I have no doubt that, had he been president back in 1888, he would have wanted to chuck my grandpa, a wandering Jew from what’s now Ukraine, out on his ear..
After all, whether he likes it or not, he is indeed the climate-change president. And give him credit, though he’s not the sun , he certainly has proven himself distinctly capable of upping the heat in this world of ours exponentially and I don’t just mean by doing everything he can under the sun to deny thatWhat he’s attempting to do on this planet of ours will, in the not-at-all-distant future, prove to be a disaster of an almost unimaginable sort—from trying to increase the. In doing so, of course, he’s also turning our future over to that other great imperial power of the moment, theby flying them first to deportation camps and then out of the country are only further heating this planet of ours, as Alexandra Villarreal of the Guardian.
That staggering number of flights is “producing hundreds of thousands of metric tons of climate-damaging carbon emissions as officials shuttle unprecedented numbers of people to detention centers far from home and deport them to countries across the world. ” USand Customs Enforcement’s air operations are estimated to have pumped 370,240 tons of carbon emissions into the air in 2025 alone, “up 88% from the year before.
”, explain it as you will, red states actually seem to be leading Democratic-led states in the build-out of clean-energy capacity. Despite its powerful links to the gas and oil industry,, for instance, is now the country’s leading clean-energy superpower because of its remarkable build-out of wind power. Recently, it even overtook California when it comes to utility-scale solar power.
Pete Hegseth, in June 1944 . As he put it recently, “Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies. Beaches inthat has almost hit 90 degrees in a world heating towards the boiling point ever faster, I’m all too aware that Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the rest of that grim clan have launched their own invasion—of planet Earth itself.
They have indeed landed on the beaches of our world, armed to the teeth, and intent on turning this planet into a heat zone. the Great Depression of the 1930s, and even built a couple of buildings in Brooklyn that he named after my dad and Hilda. Sometimes I wonder what he’d think about our strange Trumpian world today.
After all, we’re on an increasingly disturbed planet, where, in some places, as thegrow ever fiercer, sea levels rise, and... well, you get the idea... ever more people are finding that they simply can’t stay in their worlds anymore and migration of the sort my grandfather once engaged in is And President Donald J. Trump doesn’t like that one little bit. I have no doubt that, had he been president back in 1888, he would have wanted to chuck my grandpa, a wandering Jew from what’s now Ukraine, out on his ear..
After all, whether he likes it or not, he is indeed the climate-change president. And give him credit, though he’s not the sun , he certainly has proven himself distinctly capable of upping the heat in this world of ours exponentially and I don’t just mean by doing everything he can under the sun to deny thatWhat he’s attempting to do on this planet of ours will, in the not-at-all-distant future, prove to be a disaster of an almost unimaginable sort—from trying to increase the. In doing so, of course, he’s also turning our future over to that other great imperial power of the moment, theby flying them first to deportation camps and then out of the country are only further heating this planet of ours, as Alexandra Villarreal of the Guardian.
That staggering number of flights is “producing hundreds of thousands of metric tons of climate-damaging carbon emissions as officials shuttle unprecedented numbers of people to detention centers far from home and deport them to countries across the world. ” USand Customs Enforcement’s air operations are estimated to have pumped 370,240 tons of carbon emissions into the air in 2025 alone, “up 88% from the year before.
”, explain it as you will, red states actually seem to be leading Democratic-led states in the build-out of clean-energy capacity. Despite its powerful links to the gas and oil industry,, for instance, is now the country’s leading clean-energy superpower because of its remarkable build-out of wind power. Recently, it even overtook California when it comes to utility-scale solar power.
Pete Hegseth, in June 1944 . As he put it recently, “Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies. Beaches inthat has almost hit 90 degrees in a world heating towards the boiling point ever faster, I’m all too aware that Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the rest of that grim clan have launched their own invasion—of planet Earth itself.
They have indeed landed on the beaches of our world, armed to the teeth, and intent on turning this planet into a heat zone. the Great Depression of the 1930s, and even built a couple of buildings in Brooklyn that he named after my dad and Hilda. Sometimes I wonder what he’d think about our strange Trumpian world today.
After all, we’re on an increasingly disturbed planet, where, in some places, as thegrow ever fiercer, sea levels rise, and... well, you get the idea... ever more people are finding that they simply can’t stay in their worlds anymore and migration of the sort my grandfather once engaged in is And President Donald J. Trump doesn’t like that one little bit. I have no doubt that, had he been president back in 1888, he would have wanted to chuck my grandpa, a wandering Jew from what’s now Ukraine, out on his ear..
After all, whether he likes it or not, he is indeed the climate-change president. And give him credit, though he’s not the sun , he certainly has proven himself distinctly capable of upping the heat in this world of ours exponentially and I don’t just mean by doing everything he can under the sun to deny thatWhat he’s attempting to do on this planet of ours will, in the not-at-all-distant future, prove to be a disaster of an almost unimaginable sort—from trying to increase the. In doing so, of course, he’s also turning our future over to that other great imperial power of the moment, theby flying them first to deportation camps and then out of the country are only further heating this planet of ours, as Alexandra Villarreal of the Guardian.
That staggering number of flights is “producing hundreds of thousands of metric tons of climate-damaging carbon emissions as officials shuttle unprecedented numbers of people to detention centers far from home and deport them to countries across the world. ” USand Customs Enforcement’s air operations are estimated to have pumped 370,240 tons of carbon emissions into the air in 2025 alone, “up 88% from the year before.
”, explain it as you will, red states actually seem to be leading Democratic-led states in the build-out of clean-energy capacity. Despite its powerful links to the gas and oil industry,, for instance, is now the country’s leading clean-energy superpower because of its remarkable build-out of wind power. Recently, it even overtook California when it comes to utility-scale solar power.
Pete Hegseth, in June 1944 . As he put it recently, “Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies. Beaches inthat has almost hit 90 degrees in a world heating towards the boiling point ever faster, I’m all too aware that Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the rest of that grim clan have launched their own invasion—of planet Earth itself.
They have indeed landed on the beaches of our world, armed to the teeth, and intent on turning this planet into a heat zone. (And we haven’t even noticed the half of it yet because our Yes, there are obviously many, many problems when it comes to Trump, Hegseth, and crew, but in the end, none matters more than their urge to heat this planet to the boiling point.
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