I’m a little embarrassed to admit it but at one point I was somewhat of a climate change denier and also a Trump supporter. There’s a very well funded coordinated effort to get people to not take climate change seriously. That combined with doing whatever your “tribe” does is how I got sucked in to climate change denialism. I’m so glad I’m out of that. It’s why I’m now so passionate about these topics, I don’t want other people to suffer the way I did. When I say suffer let me tell you being a conservative isn’t a good life. You’re constantly fed the latest thing to hate and be outraged at along with talking points to repeat nearly verbatim. Now instead of hate I have love and want to make the world better. It really feels so much better.

The reason I’m saying this is in hopes of giving you perspective on how someone might deny climate change despite noticing the climate is different now than in one’s childhood. Even when I was a Trump supporter I remember thinking the weather does seem different but I never made the connection.

Regarding him being labeled an eccentric visionary I really hope that doesn’t happen.

As far as Ford being fine today, Henry Ford hasn’t run the company for a very long time. I think if Elon Musk were to leave Tesla it could be a good company. A lot of the issues with Tesla seem to be a direct result of Musk interfering with the engineers who want to do real work. So if one day Musk were to leave Tesla and they improve their quality issues I would think much better about Tesla.