Wiled Fires and Dry ICE Machines.

 As wildfires in Australia, Argentina, and Chile, in Spain, Portugal, and Siberia, all burn with increasing intensity, duration and frequency, the Corponations look on with envy at the level of destruction they wreak. Thus have they used their wiles to conjure vehicles capable of igniting fires so hot and explosively virulent, they cannot be put out. Thus are we privy to the ship in the middle of Atlantic being left to burn with more than 400 millions of dollars worth of luxury vehicles onboard.

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The crew was helpless to battle this wiled fire because, of course, they were unaware of the explosive cargo their Argo was carrying, so had neither the training nor the equipment to battle an electric fire's  ferocity.

Such is the future we are building for our children. Where floods of sufficient magnitude to hurl EV's at high speed against any obstacle in its path, smashing its battery and engulfing the vehicles and whatever they hit in unquenchable flames, is simply one more thing that, "Nobody could have seen coming."

This has become the cry of the New Millennium. A cry that the Bush administration raised to the level of plausible deniability, as the repercussions of the actions of his own father resulted in the attack on the American homeland that brought down two of New York's most iconic skyscrapers, and cratered the Pentagon, but was tacitly denied by making this moronic claim. It said the same of the Iraq insurgency and then of the financial meltdown. 

But Blowback was not only predicted, but was anticipated long before anyone was reading goat stories to children.  

But the blowback of GW Bush's other policies were also known, and those warnings either ignored of denied, although they are still there for anybody to read. 

The increase in the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico from fertilizer runoff increased to gargantuan proportions by planting millions of acres of pristine prairie with corn to burn into fuel to burn was also predictable, but "Nobody could have seen it coming" is the mantra we all echo mindlessly as one disaster after another is visited upon us, not simply because of climate derangement, but, more immediately, thanks to our "installed base" of ill-conceived measures of desperation concatenating one on top of the other. For let's not forget that in addition to the two Wars precipitated by the Bush junta, the fracturing of the landscape in every state that isn't an ethanol state (and some that are, such as Kansas), is stirring methane into the mix of increased CO2 and VOC's that burning ethanol results in, to the other Freedom Molecules of excess gas already floating in our air. 

But somehow the obvious fact that every single project, every single one, that the Corponations have foisted onto the polity to mitigate the effects of climate change have had, not surprisingly, considering the source, the exact opposite effect, that of paying forward climate change, bringing to our children the gift of destroyed homes, lives and ecosystems that they had hoped would be their gift to their own progeny. Not to worry. The disaster called Capitalism will continue to destroy every vestige of livable land, every field of arable soil, every acre of living forests still standing.

Even as I type this, forests in the American Southeast have been signed over to the EU for destruction. The biota from one land being ravaged and transported over the seas to be incinerated, leaving the soils they grew in bereft of the nutrients and matter necessary to regrow. But what would be the point anyway? They would either burn in wildfires or in the Corponationals' wiled fires: either way they are doomed. 

In an article posted on energysceptic.com from 2012, the authors stated that "Oil is used in 500,000 products. Thus do many scientists feel it’s crazy to be burning this precious substance to hurl 3,000 pound vehicles to the nearest fast food joint" (the newest EV's weigh in at a ton more than twice that weight: 8000 pounds ... in a decade during which COPout conferences were held regularly, yet not once was this fact mentioned at any of them) . 

Note the weight of the vehicle is stated to be 3000 pounds. A mere ten years later, that weight has doubled to 6000 pounds, and that in no vehicles more than in EV's. Thus do all the advantages a switch to an all EV fleet get thrown aside to make a vehicle American consumers will be happier to buy. After all, the juice propelling it will be Green, renewable, zero-emission. What does it matter how much it actually weighs? (except for the fact a that the price of all that free electricity will be so onerous, the buyers will be driving their dry ICE machines far more often than their spanking new wiled firestarters.

While solar panels are destroyed by hail the size of tennis balls, and windmills blow over in locations where there are no hurricanes, ships carrying the vehicles of the future incinerate their contents to molten metal and melted glass in an inextinguishable blaze caused by their own batteries.

This is the future, well, no, actually ... this is the present. And who wants to look a gift horse in the mouth? In The future we are in the process of building back better, unlike that the Bush family cursed us with, is promising not to wait the generation it took for the worse of their problems to manifest themselves: they have been more immediate, and yet, the investment in them already having been made, there is no stopping their trajectory any more than there is any stopping, or even the will to try, the climate nightmare the Bush family bequeathed to us.

And each these federally-funded endeavors, most of them instigated by the party that was simultaneously deriding the phrase, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help," had no problem helping themselves to the federal largesse, nor the GUARANTEED profits flowing into their bank accounts from these ecologically disastrous enterprises.

Thus have the Democrats climbed on the bandwagon of government-guarantees to start a money train of their own by baking in billionaires' profits for another generation while the polity they pretend they represent languishes in Covid-infested workplaces, toiling long hours at meager wages, cosseted in a straitjacket of unpayable debt, elevated insurance costs, and escalating energy bills. The less lucky ones are or at home in beds the hospitals need no longer supply, as long Covid becomes permanent disability, saving the hospital system while the citizens suffer theconsequences.

Nothing we can do, the Covid pandemic has shown us, will alter the future that Capitalism is building. One in which  humans will be tied to the mast of their own making as the ship they have set out in burns to a smoking hulk. But unlike the crew on board the Felicity Ace, we have no place to flee to for a safe haven, no rescue ship, no firefighting boats, just the certainty that our fate will be the same as that of the other creatures we share this lovely planet with. Koala bears in Australia, cattle in Kenya, sheep in Greece, corals and manatees off the coast of Florida, or Herefords in Argentina, they are left to the merciless scorching of the sun, isolated in burning llanos where there is nary a drop of water for hundreds of miles. Their dried up carcasses, no longer of any use to the machine that created them and placed them here, are left to rot in the relentless heat of Chile (or Argentina, ... or, ___ ) or burn to death in the raging fires of Australia, or die of thirst in the parched prairies of Utah, even as Utah injects more and more poison into the water supply for fracking so they can make the dirtiest fuel in the world from their own tar sands, all while they scratch their heads wondering what's happened.

We happened.

And it looks as though not only is their no will to stop us, every indication shows we are chomping at the bit to bring it up a notch:

Car Carbon footprint the size of 370 Football Fields.

 

This is a pic of Tesla’s factory in Fremont, California. It is supposedly one of the world’s most advanced automotive plants, with 5.3 million square feet of manufacturing and office space on 370 acres of land. Drenched in the California sun, robofacturing EV's at at frantic pace, observe how there is not a single spot in their parking lot for their own workers to charge their automobiles. Instead of solar-powered arrays lining the lot, made available for its employees to get to and from their giggle factory, their is this ginormous expanse of unused geography left to languish in the sun, their cars heating up in the broiling heat. And this is Tesla's vision of the future, wherein employees still eat the cost of commuting while all that free solar radiation is allowed to roast their vehicles, forcing thousands of them to consume gas to power their A/C to cool the oven-hot interior.

That is just one example of how a business infrastructure that has been hijacked by the Keptocracy is spending billions and billions of federally-guaranteed loans to pay dividend to their insider friends while labor, well, labors.  We are given as a fact that globalization has to hurt less-educated workers, as opposed to this outcome being a policy choice by the people who crafted trade agreements over the last four decades or government-granted patent monopolies on "green" tech that has turned out to be anything but. 

These government-granted monopolies are part of a government policy to promote innovation, even while those granted the monopolies profess ardent belief in letting "the Market." rule us all. Neoliberals picking our pockets while we pick our noses: Build Back Booger it's not.