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Tor Guttorm's avatar

"The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise."

― Alan Moore

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Boris Dirnbach's avatar

This fits in perfectly with Gaius Publi's previous post on the "Iron Law of Institutions." The super-rich would rather ride the world downhill toward some level of chaos that they'll control (and won't suffer from) than cede control to the "environmentalists," Democratic Socialists, and anti-neoliberal forces who will pass laws that infringe on their prerogatives.

Also, about that old adage of the environmental Left that there's no Planet B? Actually, there is as the Goldman Sachs photo illustrates. They're building their air-conditioned, climate-controlled domains while the rest of us are left subject to the vagaries of droughts, floods, and storms.

This article from Pro-Publica captures our separately evolving worlds perfectly. https://www.propublica.org/article/postcard-from-thermal-surviving-the-climate-gap-in-eastern-coachella-valley

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