What Do Penguins Actually Care About?

(Hello climate-change catastrophe, my old friend)

Have you had your share of penguin jokes these past few days, ever since the Heard and McDonald Islands got swept up in a recent round of tariff discourse? Editorial comics and social media memes abounded this past week: of penguins in an uproar about tariffs on their eggs or ice, or penguins with “flippers up” against the US government, or MAGA penguin…