Oceans

I see the point about not bothering to vote in a State where the results are a given. As to the rationality of their behavior - I disagree. It may be true that the results of this election or any other, including presidential elections does not seem to affect their personal lives at the given moment, but for better or for worse - and especially on the long run - what happens in the United States affects the entire globe.

Perhaps it is the pregnancy thing, but a few weeks ago, an article I read in The New Yorker about the acidification of oceans as a consequence of global warming literally made me cry. Granted, I cry at the sight of any commercial that has babies in it and each time I hear the first note of pretty much any Damien Rice song, but still; the thought that my grandchild (and this future grandchild seems much less abstract to me now that its future father or mother is kicking my ribs so hard at times that it takes my breath away) will potentially never know what a coral reef is, let alone swim around one, filled me with unbelievable sadness and anxiety. And that, for example, is an issue where what U.S. policy-makers choose to do or not do matters more than what everybody else around the world, put together, does or doesn't do.