"The effort is part of a larger campaign being waged by red states to push back against ESG financing, with Republican leaders claiming that banks are choosing politics over sound lending practices by reducing their funding of fossil fuel projects to appease activist investors."
This ^ is what power (and resource) consolidation looks like. As in:
Just remember when people start dying en masse in wet-bulb heat or another firenado that this was avoidable, just like the massive COVID-19 death toll, and politicians and "influencers" took a look at all the data and let it happen.
And remember, too, that the disinformation that we've been fighting since 2015 was tailor-made to leverage climate catastrophe into weapons against all of us for their own political and financial gain.
Remember when I said we're all in the shit together now and started talking about water hedge funds and climate catastrophes and global far right power grabs? Anyway,
Also, perhaps now is the time to start thinking about why hardened borders and anti-refugee rhetoric might be on the upswing during a cross-border megadrought during a global climate collapse. Go on, think it over. Then you can freak out at just as much as I do.
Bad, violent people hear people with influence and authority dehumanizing other groups, and decide that makes it okay for them to pick up a gun and go after those other groups. That's what's going on. It's a very well-known dynamic, as is behavioral contagion around violence
But the nation's press has decided to just act like it's only well known under circumstances that are seen as politically neutral, such as suicides (rarely reported as such because of fear of "suicide contagion")
The deported veterans of the United States military represent one of the more grotesque parts of American immigration laws. You don’t get automatic citizenship for serving