Kaputalism: Covid, Climate Change, and Corporatism Claiming it's Capitalism Spell Carnage across the Seven C's..

 In the aftermath of the Super typhoon that devastated the Philippines, Yan, an environmentalist and advocate (of what, he neglects to specify), said, "If we stop the emissions as soon as possible, or at least replace them with emissions from renewable sources, then the world will be a safer place for everyone.” 

WHA?! That is probably the most idiotic statement about Climate Change I've yet read: Emissions are emissions. If the source of those emissions is renewable, then emissions will ALWAYS go up, as there is no end to the source creating those emissions. For example if the new products director of Coca (Comércio Indústria Canaã Açúcar e Álcool Ltda), André Alves da Silva, were right when he stated that "Sugarcane is the green oil,” then even if the emissions caused by creating that green oil were to be half of those created using fossil fuel, since fossil fuels will run out at some point before the end of the century, but supposedly the "green oil's" emissions will carry on unabated, and will in fact increase until they first equal, then exceed, those created by the combustion of all the current non-renewable fuels combined, so inevitably at some point in time, renewables will produce more CO2 emissions than fossil fuels do today. But hey! They're Renewable! (and even that's a lie, since, sans fossil fuel inputs, there is no sugarcane industry).  

Palm oil is a green oil, by da Silva's definition, and Malaysia, like Brazil and Indonesia, has the smoldering destroyed rain forests to prove its "green" credentials. Somehow tearing out by the roots everything that actually IS green on every square foot of land in sight leads to green electricity; like the Drax, a British company fashioned after Dr. Who's daleks, razing American woodlands to the ground  to manufacture wood pellets, is laying bare hillsides and forested land throughout the US Southeast to feed the insatiable maw of wood-burning power plants in Europe in order for Euroland to boast of their "renewable" energy production as the definition of "renewable" is stretched so thin it includes everything under the sun.

Kill everything now!

 Military daleks, euphemistically referred to as drones, have already been deployed by the US military as a  weapon of massive destruction, yet we have barely scratched the surface of their full potential. The daleks in Brazil razing the rainforest, those in Canada chewing up the geography to boil kerogen, the daleks all across the American hinterland shattering it to rubble and flaring off the resultant gas, the daleks, numbering in the hundreds of millions coursing across the highways specifically designed for dalek mobility, and the mega-daleks burning the most polluting of all fuels as they cross vast oceans to deliver garbage to store shelves in such quantities that they squeeze out the less-profitable necessities, such as N-95 masks needed to slow the spread of what we now consider an endemic virus are all gifts from the corponationals. So much so that, despite its transmission rate and lethality far exceeding the original virus, we, as in the CDC, openly scoff at the idea of sending Covid test kits to any household in America that requests one ... I mean, after all, whadyathink this is, Communist China, fer Chrissakes? 

Kamel-toes Harris says the Biden administration ‘didn’t see omicron coming.’ 

Really? Maybe that lame excuse worked for those smug know-it-alls Bernanke and Krugman in 2008, but nowadays, when everyone is talking about the omicron variant and it is in headlines weeks before the VP of the Sole Superpower expresses her ignorance of the hyper-spread of yet another variant of the virus that has caused a worldwide pandemic, like an anti-vaxxer with dirty hands, it won't wash.

The current lazy-fare form of totalitarianism (Remember, Mussolini, who knew something about totalitarianism, created the words “fascism” and "totalitarianism" which he defined as “the merging of the state and the corporation.” He also said a more accurate word would be “corporatism.” ... this was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations) the world is currently in the grips of, has no mechanism with which to do anything but churn out profits. Should one of the Corponations fail to do so it fails, profits being the only metric by which any corporate balance sheet can be measured. So automatically, when the state hands over billions, trillions, to the coffers of the Corponations to come up with new technologies, their only "solutions", unsurprisingly, will be those that will, after spending the people's money to pay dividends to only their own shareholders, and make their bottom lines attractive to "investors", boost their own profits. And if those solutions are renewable, truly renewable (no such thing exists, of course, but here in Malice in Wonderland, there is no lie too outrageous that someone with a podcast and an evil intent won't propagate nor that millions with faith-based brains won't believe) all the better, as they can, presumably, go on forever. Because, even if you don't believe in peak oil or resource depletion, the CEO's at the vanguard of the Globalization (a catchy Newspeak noun for Corporatism)  phenomenon, know otherwise.

When a corporate CEO, a certain fElon Musk, can siphon government subsidies paid to make green technology to fund the fossil-fuel-swilling and self-serving Space X boondoggle, and by such defalcations earn the sobriquet of Man of the Year, when he has proven himself more worthy of the title Dick of the Century, one wonders if there is in fact any hope left for the poor creatures who are rapidly succumbing to the fastest mass extinction event in mankind's history. But hey, the Musk ox is richer than rich, so why worry? 

When I suggested to a friend a coupla weeks ago that every single step, every one, initiated to supposedly mitigate the disaster called Climate Derangement, has instead made it worse, she shook her head and rejected the concept as too frightening to contemplate. But how could it be otherwise? Is there a metric they have to meet? A rigorous protocol they must follow? Any restraint on the amount of carbon they vent into the atmosphere in order to bring their green genes to market? Nope. Not a one. All they need do is say whatever whiz-bang pseudo-solution they need enormous government input, in the form of cash, in order to actuate, and Bam! they're off to the races, and their first order of business, every single time, is to radically increase the amount of CO2 their corponation is spewing into the troposphere, with no actual need to, any time in the future either, demonstrate that their mega-project, that now has government backing as well as myriad ancillary companies doing the corponation's bidding, to even bother to try, since, should it turn out that they actually have INcreased their CO2 creation, it will be hidden away, and/or just simply denied. And any journalist that dare question them will be soon enough disappeared.

And we are complicit every step along the way, because everyone knows the two largest inputs to CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere are automobiles (and the complete transformation of the living environment into a dead one needed to support them), and the production and distribution of electricity.

Without these, there is no modernity, and without modernity, there is no need for Corporate behemoths bestriding the globe and transforming it into a desert. Hello!? They're suggesting you move to MARS if you don't like what they're doing to this planet. THAT's the solution of the so-called Man of the Year, so perhaps he is a suitable choice in the post-giving-a-shit about Covid world we are in now.

A world held fast in the iron grip of an intermeshed, internetted matrix of Corporate rule has no means by which to free itself from its gilded cage. Like Covid, Climate Change to a corponation is a business opportunity, a chance to use tax money to create a lucrative profit center. And every business opportunity requires huge upfront investments be made, and enormous piles of cash change hands before the first person is hired or the first product is mechanofactured. Right now both GM and Ford are constructing, following the Musk-ox's example, ginormous factories to roll out the transportation of the future, transportation that will look pretty much the same as the transportation of the present, and will wreak every bit as much havoc to the natural environment and the living planet as the current one: only it will happen ON TOP of the already-existing carbon-spewing technology that will be rolling, in far greater numbers, along the same tarmac, and those EV's will require, thanks to their tonnage, even more energy be created to mobilize them. But that's not a concern, because, of course, they'll be powered with "green" renewable energy, so what's the worry? Just clear-cut, burn down, and dig up everything on the planet to deliver it.

Darkness at Noon.

In the totalitarianism of the late-20'th and early 21'st century there is no room for dissension, no hope that a suggestion that might actually slow down our 40-billion-ton/yr habit of adulterating the air we breath with gigatonnes of the same gas our lungs are specifically designed to exhale. Because it's poison. The irony of CO2 accumulating in the lungs of Covid patients and proving deadly to them even as the world demonstrates the exact same phenomenon happening on a planetary scale has been completely lost on humanity a full two years into a deadly pandemic. There is just no way that a humanity so blinded to their own hand in their own extermination will ever see fit to do anything that will actually help ... humans that have been turned into corporate robots haven't that capacity. Their native intelligence has already been too badly compromised and replaced with corporate-sponsored Artificial Intelligence. And AI has no capacity for original thought or creative action. Just ask a Tesla driver who has trusted their auto-pilot. Oh, that's right, you can't; 'Cause they're dead ... or up on manslaughter charges.