Inquiring Minds Want To Wring Somebody’s
Neck
I know I’ve said that every day is still
January 6th. But every day is also Earth Day. Or should be.
Joe Biden appeared to genuinely understand
that the already-in-progress, unrelenting and accelerating climate catastrophe was serious as a planetary heart attack*. He
seemed poised to turn the environment around. He sure talked a good game – on
the campaign trail and at the recent global climate summit in Scotland. He even
appeared to put a stop to further oil and gas drilling with an executive order
that paused all current permits and required a review of all programs related
to fossil fuel development.
Then guess what happened.
Thirteen Ratpublican states sued to challenge Biden’s executive order, citing…wait for it…undue harm to the poor struggling fossil fuel fucks.
The federal judge who sided with the rapacious
Ratpublicans and their oil-entrenched overlords and ruled that “Millions and
possibly billions of dollars are at stake.” Dollars? What about millions and billions of
human (and plant and animal) lives, you corporate-coddling cowpie?
Then guess what
happened.
Nothing much. At
least, nothing much good. Despite Biden's campaign promise to ban new oil and
gas leasing for public lands and waters “end of story”, the administration last
week auctioned off 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico. You know, because
what could possibly go wrong with oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, and one
assumes, burning whatever oil manages to not end up all over the Gulf and its
inhabitants, will not contribute to the climate crisis Biden pledged to fight
with great vigor. And apparently much more oil and gas leases. When last I
checked, most major banks don’t even want to fund any more Earth-killing
projects.
The good news is there are plans to build a giant black
box that will allow future civilizations to understand
what a bunch of fucking morons once roamed the Earth. The box will be located It
is hoped the box will provide a record for “future” “civilizations” so that
they might understand what caused the demise of the current tenants. Like any
black box worth its salt, this one will record every step we take to ensure the
most efficient, most comprehensive climate catastrophe. Though this black box
will have much more data than most, the developers estimate that the data
storage will run out in 30 to 50 years. I guess they figured that should cover
it. It’s been nice knowing you, humans. Heckuva job. I wonder if the Earth will
have to go through another round of dinosaurs before humans get another crack
at existence after another 100,000,000 years or so. My money is on cockroaches,
50-foot spiders, and sharks.
*Of course, the planet will survive (barring global thermonuclear war),
it will only be a fatal-human-species-wide-heart-attack.
This has been a
Paying Attention™ Special Broken Earth News report.
We now return you to
your regularly scheduled gnashing of teeth.
BONUS TRACK:
Kansas - Death Of Mother Nature Suite
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