Climate Changes People While The Yankees Dawdle

Samuel Beckett won the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature and changed the universe of the literate with his book Waiting for Godot, that which is centered around two men, Estragon and Vladimir, who keep a vigil for Godot, who never gets there, the road to nowhere. By refusing to abide by the Kyoto Protocol, refusing to acknowledge climate change, is the US waiting for Godot?

Alternative questions: Is the US waiting for Al Gore? On February this year, I wrote about The Yankee Dawdle on global warming (americanchronicle.com): Is the US literate?

Jak Peake writes (hewett.norfolk.sch.uk) that Waiting for Godot is about existentialism. ‘Existentialism is a humanism,’ says the famous existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre (marxists.org), contrary to what the Communists state and against what the Christians believe. I see. Humans are free and there is no God. As an existentialist, I exist, therefore I exist. In Godot, ‘Vladimir’ (Slavic for ‘renowned prince’) implies ‘intellectual’ and ‘Estragon’ (French for the herb tarragon) implies ‘earthbound’ (Eugene Webb, drama21c.net). In Waiting for Godot, both the intellectual and earthbound existentialists wait for no one. I realize now that the US is both intellectual and earthbound. I thought the US was capitalist, not existentialist? I see the US can’t see climate change as capital.

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