SO ONCE AGAIN I ILLUSTRATE with my hapless great grandchildren—from left Claire, Iris and Simon Camfield-Bronstein. They will have little to do with creation of the near future of the early ‘30s when they’ll still be pretty much adolescents — but will be among those most affected by how quickly it all develops.

My sympathy to those among the generations of their parents and grandparents who are trying to change the nature of things — and my total lack of interest in any future photos of Donald Trump. Everyone knows what he looks like. Despite self-gilding, he’s not handsome. Also these days, it takes very little reading between the lines to see Donald’s threats of violence against New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg (Black Democrat) and members of the Grand Jury considering, at this writing, indicting him (Trump).

The Constitution, incidentally, says nothing about a criminal record as a disqualification for the office of President. Thus, nothing it seems — even if he’s watching from behind bars — would keep an ex-, one-term president such as Trump from seeking, still again, first-time majority approval of the voting public (via the Electoral College).

Although he seems to cling to visions of a white supremacist American dictatorship with himself as chief — and vision not extending beyond his own lifetime — Donald is about out of it where American politics is concerned. Which leaves the GOP with Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida for the next presidential contest in 2024. He’s a lot like Trump. He’s big on laws and appointments preventing recognition of sexual diversity and racial equality. We don’t even want to get started on him . . . so I won’t.

What Republicans seem to need for a complete needed remake of their party is a middle-aged woman candidate with a liberal overtone or two. And good luck with that.

For more about DeSantis, Google: “Ron DeSantis' donors and allies question if he's ready for 2024.”

“International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Synthesis Report” is as good a place as any to start on the Internet where children and climate change are concerned. Better yet is the story headlined “The climate crisis is coming for your children” in the “Opinion” section of The Seattle Times on Sunday, March 26. Just one paragraph from that story reads:

“The warming I have experienced up to present day is much larger than the warming my parents experienced up to the same age,” says Alex Ruane, a member of the IPCC writing team and co-director of the climate impacts group at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “And when you look at the same sequence of icons for the present-day generations, you can see that the warming is much steeper.”