increasing temperatures, drought conditions, super-storms… all just the norm now. More and more all outdated or stressed energy infrastructure will be stretched to its limit to keep indoor spaces habitable, with diminishing world-wide disaster recovery efforts because there’s a disaster at home that needs fixing. Efforts to reverse the damage (that we’re still accelerating), will be a massive project, taking the better part of a century to have any tangible effects. All because when scientists first reported this man-made disaster to executives within the oil & gas industry in 1896, they decided that short-term profit was more important. And then when more scientists reported further that this man-made disaster was real and accelerating in 1938, they said again “we’ll take our short term profits.” And then when scientists and politicians and world leaders all reported that this man-made disaster was accelerating and destroying vital links within the food chain today, they again said they’d prefer their short term profits, and really, it’s not their fault, and then they paid lobbyists to bribe politicians so that they could continue to operate without any meaningful changes to their money-printing death to all machine.
I know the phrase is; “Eat the Rich,” but what it should be is “Eat the executives that have continued to profiteer off of the destruction of our planet and species.”