Headline white noise is worth exactly as much as it cost to print. There isn't going to be a global terraforming effort. We're not going to re-engineer life on the planet. Look at what's happening to Exxon right now. The largest business in the world put a big bet on O&G in 2014 and it is currently eating shit like shit is going out of style, because demand for their product is down. Five years and the firm has gone from Titan Of Industry to Mountain of Bad Debt.
This is the future of western capitalism. Half a century of risky bets failing to pay off. Trillions in liabilities being rendered worthless. And the nation responding with British-style Austerity, further collapsing the economy like it's a neutron star.
We're not going to Mars. We're not going back to the Moon. We're not beating Climate Change with Infrastructure Week. We're just going to bleed out like a bunch of stuck piggies, as our creditors cannibalize the corporates dinosaurs and then each other. That is what, in the end, will curtail US consumption of fossil fuels. A Second Great Depression.
Headline white noise is worth exactly as much as it cost to print. There isn't going to be a global terraforming effort. We're not going to re-engineer life on the planet. Look at what's happening to Exxon right now. The largest business in the world put a big bet on O&G in 2014 and it is currently eating shit like shit is going out of style, because demand for their product is down. Five years and the firm has gone from Titan Of Industry to Mountain of Bad Debt.
This is the future of western capitalism. Half a century of risky bets failing to pay off. Trillions in liabilities being rendered worthless. And the nation responding with British-style Austerity, further collapsing the economy like it's a neutron star.
We're not going to Mars. We're not going back to the Moon. We're not beating Climate Change with Infrastructure Week. We're just going to bleed out like a bunch of stuck piggies, as our creditors cannibalize the corporates dinosaurs and then each other. That is what, in the end, will curtail US consumption of fossil fuels. A Second Great Depression.
I find this oddly more comforting