Within the first a part of this sequence (which should be learn to grasp lots of the ideas right here), I reviewed what number of totally different industries are dominated by people who will put income earlier than human lives — and that this occurs to a level that’s typically tough to even think about. The navy industrial advanced, and the current struggle in Ukraine finest embody this grotesque side of the human situation, however the identical patterns are seen in lots of different fields as effectively.
As a longtime environmentalist, one of the crucial miserable issues I’ve watched in my lifetime has been main polluters hijacking the environmental motion and reworking it from one thing that fought to in opposition to the destruction of our air and water to a fanatical campaign in opposition to (innocent) carbon dioxide. Sadder nonetheless, this campaign has regularly turn out to be a struggle and has adopted the identical playbook utilized by the events which lust for full energy over the citizenry.
