The Shape of Things to Come?

British journalist, Arwa Mahdawi, lives in the US with an American wife. She ponders whether the UK or the US is currently the more dysfunctional (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/18/which-is-more-dysfunctional-the-us-or-the-uk-i-created-a-global-embarrassment-index-to-figure-it-out). Mahdawi concludes the countries are equally dysfunctional and both moving 'perilously quickly to authoritarianism'. I worry that current heads of both countries have anointed themselves as 'global leaders' in the 'fight against climate change'. This is in spite of the fact that both seem to prefer talking about reducing 'greenhouse gas' emissions, rather than doing anything serious about it. If, however, either country slides into authoritarianism, any new 'management' is likely to be strongly opposed to 'green crap'. That would mean minima of 5 more years of procrastination. We don't have 5 more years.