Back in 2015, drought solutions were hidden behind unhelpful PR....

I was crushed when Hillary Clinton lost the election.  But, after talking to a former high level Republican official, I now think some good might come from the election of Donald Trump.  If either of those statements made you cringe, that, in my opinion, is the biggest issue of all.  Generalization is the death knell of civil discourse.  This election, and so many other policy debates, have become all – or – nothing flame throwing matches. We are smarter than that.

One of the most shocking events of 2016 was the Fact Free Election: free license to mislead and lie, without time or care for details.  The problem is politics begets policy, and the truth seems to matter less and less to people.  In the case of science, this is tragic.