Burning fossil fuels like trying to get to the center of the tootsie pop. Except instead of a delicious center the goal is to maximize profits at the expense and death of everyone else. The only way this really makes sense is just pure greed and an inability to be willing to take any sort of loss on a resource that was brutally won over several generations of warfare and eventual court room litigations.

We all need to understand that this is the reason switching to renewable energy is stalling even though the technology now exists and is cheaper than ever. Oligarchs are not unique to RUS or US they proliferate every government around the world and all of them have a vested interest in the delaying of human advancement for profit. Whether they launder their ethics through a board of directors at a large corporation or eschew all norms and seek to launch political coups to advance their own agendas it’s all the same.

There is no one in power to affect policy either locally or globally who has the capacity to do what is best for the average citizen. Power is bought at the benefit of you or me and is exchanged easily for words and loosened morality. Thoughts and prayers for whatever comes after and from the collapse of humanity, whether it’s a different sentient species or our descendants trying to eek out a life in the charred remains of what we left behind. Because truly thinking about the problems and praying about is the only thing anyone with a modicum of sway can do before the money talks and forces their actions.

If we’re lucky, real change is possible in our lifetimes the cost will be the collective comfort of the masses but well worth it.

Welcome to my rant, leave your thoughts below we’re all screaming into a void anyhow.