Shame on Hawaii. After blaming global warming for the fires in Maui instead of their own mismanagement, now the government is going to punish tourists by slapping them with a carbon footprint tax - not merely lodging in hotels and vacation rentals, but cruise ships as well. At this rate, the government will be looking next to tax boat rentals, beach towels and tiki torches. Paradise lost!

This opinion piece in USA Today openly expresses a growing sentiment that we have been betrayed. This extends far beyond Libertarians. Everybody who voted for Trump feels betrayed, except for a few remaining Trumpists who have turned politics into a religion with blinders on. This is why Courtenay Turner and I wrote The Final Betrayal: How Technocracy Destroyed America.

How did all this garbage - pure Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy - show up in our cities and states? Answer: a full-court barrage of UN agents. I dare you to search for your city and the words "climate action plan" on Google. You will be shocked! I estimate that seventy percent of all cities already have a formal plan, and another twenty percent are working on it.

As pressure increases on society to legalize "suicide", one must harken back to the 1973 cult movie "Soylent Green", staring Charlton Heston (Robert Thorn) and Edward G. Robinson (Sol). This totally dystopian movie is set in a world beset by shortages and environmental degradation, where people's corpuses are are recycled into food. Seeing no way out, Sol turns himself to the local euthanasia center.