The Titans' new football stadium, slated to open in 2027. 2.1-2.2 BILLION. While the world heats up as we continue to delay and deny. Delay action to prepare for the consequences of what we've already done, and deny that it will be something everyone lives to regret. 1/ 
In an economy that is also driven by denial and business as usual, these kinds of spending priorities are insane. The present stadium is not even 30 years old. But this too is a piece of the insane decadence of the "NFL dream". Luxury boxes. A sport becoming more and more... 2/
...of the rich & for the rich. While Tennessee's government is in the hands of MAGA, with their clueless, selfish economics, & bigoted treatment of people. Even without a Climate/Ecological Crisis, this is a debacle of inept and delusional operations; a denial of destruction. 3/
A civilization that justified bailing out banks because they were "too big to fail" continues to fail to see how the ecosystem is actually the only "too big to fail" reality. We've shown our capacity for denial through our self deception about overshoot & drive to decadence as 4/
A "sign of success", when it is actually all a part of the human psychosis, enabled by denial of reality and science. When the economy experienced trauma in 2007-08, it took no time at all for sports to just move on into ever more insane investments, to the complete disregard 5/
Of either ecological reality or for what makes for an equitable and just society. I've seen this insanity expand like cancer in the past 11 years since I awoke to the urgency of the Ecological Crisis, and realized that something sinister began 20 years ago during the financial 6/
Meltdown. It seems it wasn't just the banks that were deemed "too big to fail", but the myth of the absolute necessity of unlimited growth, and so the "requirement" that we build decadence upon decadence, while insanely ignoring how we neglect investing in preparing for what's 7/
Coming, and already been hitting us (but we deny that, too). 8/
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