As the World Burns, Mike Pompeo Smells a Business Opportunity

The secretary of state thinks climate change's catastrophic devastation will also be a great business opportunity

on Friday. “As for the risks associated with climate change, the climate’s been changing a long time.” Sure there will be changes as carbon dioxide fills the atmosphere, likely fueling violent storms and ocean acidification, accelerating deforestation and the extinction of species. But Pompeo assures us, “Societies reorganize; we move to different places; we develop technology and innovation.” Climate refugees, by definition, can always relocate.

“I was just in the Netherlands, all below sea level, right? Living a wonderful, thriving economic situation,” Pompeo continued. “The world will be successful. I’m convinced.”

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