Jules Verne predicted Trump’s Golden Age of America, but he was no green

Jules Verne was no green, at least not as we think of the word, in political terms, today .

The French novelist anticipated Trump ’s new, expansionist “Golden Age of America” David Frum : Verne loved the Earth , so much so that he wrote prodigiously about making it better for people.

But today , we see that the predominant faction of greens is not pro-people at all, he says.

In The Purchase of the North Pole Verne suggested a joint exercise to apportion the Arctic .

Verne , an admirer of American can-do, assigned Uncle Sam the lead role.

Trump would love it: The wealth is there, waiting. All you have to do is break a few eggs and smash a couple shibboleths.