All this is very correct, but considering Trumps distain for the threat of global warming, not only is democracy and even civilization in danger from him, but human survival as more than smart animals. It sounds like hyperbolism but there is so much at stake right now. We need to firmly establish civilization as an ecology to replace the hunter gatherer tribal ecology we left. Our ecology is our life support system and right now, that is civilization. If we fail that test we will go back to a feudal time of starvation, war, ignorance and disease that will be hard to escape from.