Article contentBut the elephant in the room is the denial of human-caused climate change that is the hallmark of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, along with other right-wing governments in North America and worldwide. The scientific consensus for at least the last 50 years has been that fossil fuel emissions, if not curbed, will contribute to extreme weather patterns that could eventually make Earth barely habitable. Big Oil has suppressed these warnings, in favour of profit, and these warnings have been widely ignored. We could say we get the climate we deserve, were the outcome not so tragic.