Thom Hartmann
Most recently, 100 mph winds swept grass-fires through Colorado, leaving thousands homeless. It was 116 degrees here in Portland last summer, as wildfires and drought ravage the West. The Gulf Coast, South and Eastern Seaboard are now annually torn apart by superstorms, while the Midwest faces mile-wide tornadoes never before seen with this ferocity and frequency.
Climate change has gone from the theoretical to slapping us in the face.
From drought and fires that killed hundreds in California, to massive tornadoes ripping apart Kentucky, to sea-level rise and flooding cities, America is being hammered and Americans are dying. Right now.
And it’s expensive. Individual families (and their insurance companies) are bearing the brunt of the burden right now, but as climate disasters continue to scale up it’s going to not only cost more and more American homes and lives, it’s also already costing the country hundreds of billions — soon to be trillions — every year.
So, who’s going to pay for this?
If an arsonist lit your house on fire, in addition to sending him to jail you could also sue his estate for damages.
In this case, we have corporations and individuals who intentionally lied to us for half a century about the impact of their fossil fuels on global warming just to enrich themselves.
Now they’re standing back with their hands in their pockets shrugging and whistling while people die and our homes are frozen, flooded or destroyed by tornadoes.
Read more…
https://www.alternet.org/2022/01/corporate-crime-in-america/
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Nope. Geoengineering is likely behind much of this aberrant weather. Contact Dane Wigington and you will get the real story behind wacky weather.
Murkans love pointing fingers at others… just look at the biggest prison industrial slavery complex in the history of mankind in the land of the so-called free and the totally unhinged, racist finger pointing law n order fascists. The wonderful thing is that only Gods laws are eternal and just like you judged others so shall ye be judged. We’ll see how you like it. Dumbasses.
Im not saying let corporate america get away; im saying, include your own complicit behavior with it for decades. All those Linked-in little fascist lovers of savage capitalism uber alles.
Yes, and since corporate america is one and the same bunch who run america, who’s going to hold whom accountable?
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