Donald Trump is costing us one precious thing: time | Bill McKibben
The constant sense of crisis that the president creates robs us of the concentration we need to focus on long-term issues like climate change
Donald Trump may be costing us many things: a sense of national decency, a stable global order, a generation of professional civil servants and diplomats. Or maybe not. Maybe we can claw those losses back – perhaps the reaction will begin with the midterm elections and we’ll slowly return our way towards something that looks like the old normal.
But he’s costing us one precious thing, and that’s time. It rolls past every day as we stand necessarily transfixed by his transgressions, and since it can’t be rolled back there are victims who
