I think that the problem for the planet is that you are right, the US will keep going as it is until a fracture occurs. But it will keep going until it is probably a complete climate catastrophe that wrecks it, and that may be a long way into the future.

Even the loss of drinking water in the SW is too slow to impact decision making for another 25 years, by which time it will be far far too late.

Rome is burning and the White House is fiddling hard and fast into the long night.

keep to the Fen Causeway