Neros Burning
‘No One Is Safe’: Extreme Weather Batters the Wealthy World
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/climate/heatwave-weather-hot.html
NIMBY is shrinking, what happens in Vegas will happen in Manhattan and Lesotho and Buenos Aires.
Inevitably, mansions and corner offices and private schools and cathedrals and clubs and children of the climate-destructing CEOs and investors will become charred and drowned and collapsed, unable to be saved by storms of exculpting publicity and token measures to calm complainants and cower regulators.
Rome burned while toga-ed leaders partied and crucified dissenters, now climate change protesters are murdered and imprisoned by police and soldiers armed with highest tech spying tools and exuberantly expensive, horrific weapons.
Carpet and nuclear bombing of WW2 and Vietnam slaughtered millions, inducing blame-free mindsets of those safe at home and in halls of government.
Leadership expounded a protective numbness of patriotism and fostered that in constituencies with parades, pledges of allegiance, medals of honor, pristine cemeteries, aged veteran homes and piddling benefits.
What can eliminate heartlessness among the best and brightest, the wealthiest and privileged, who propound the notion of toughness and profitability as the sign of success?
Not the university business and professional schools, not the politicians, that's for sure because they are totally subservient to the donors who bribe them to sustain a way of life which fracks the earth for the pleasure of a few Neros while maximizing the rucifixing tens of thousands in amply rewarded prison industries.
Shame!