The great “soft energy” or renewable energy prophet and physicist, Amory Lovins, put this critical declaration in modern, secular language when he wrote: “Markets make good servants, but bad masters.” For over 2000 years, every major religion has warned about subordination by the merchant class of civilized values. With no other driving value system than short-term profits, these artificial entities or companies, and corporations controlling different dangerous technologies, cannot be allowed equal justice under the law with real human beings driven by other far more important life-sustaining and morally enhancing values. The realities each year exceed scientists’ predictive models.
The projections for what climate eruptions will do to humans and the natural world continue to be underestimated. Running berserk with their bulging profits, these giant energy companies worldwide are forging a suicide pact with an abused Mother Earth. Its marketeers see their profitable circular death dance intensify as hotter days lead to higher air conditioning loads. The oil, gas and coal industry’s tentacles have encircled a majority of the 535 lawmakers in Congress to shield and maintain huge tax subsidies behind the industry’s lethal drive for increased production. After all, he is in Texas, where the oil and gas lobby (Exxon Mobil Et al.) is pushing to increase North American exploration, production, and burning of these well-documented omnicidal sources of global warming and climate violence. Until overturned by a Texas court, Governor Greg Abbott overrode some ordinances that were passed in large Texas cities requiring drinking water breaks for construction workers laboring under 100-degree temperatures.Ībbott, arguably the cruelest governor in the United States – unless Florida Governor Ron DeSantis out-snarls him – thought he could get away with this bit of brutishness. Then the Biden Administration proposed modest regulations that are facing corporate opposition and years of delay by corporate attorneys. Sidney Wolfe, was a pioneer in petitioning OSHA to issue regulations to protect workers against extreme heat (See: topic/heat-stress/). Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, led by Dr. Famine lurks in East Africa’s worst drought in 40 years, while contaminated water takes its toll on many diseases, especially horrifying for infants and young children.Īnother consequence recorded by the Post with the headline “Amid Record Heat, Even Indoor Factory Workers Enter Dangerous Terrain” in Asia. Canadian wildfires poured smoke and particulates into the U.S. Over 40 million Pakistanis will endure dangerous heat for over six months a year “unless they can find shade… Extreme heat, which causes heatstroke and damages the heart and kidneys” is just one consequence.ĭengue fever surged in Peru. The Indian sub-continent is registered as having one of the longest annual heat-intense periods.
The article depicted a world map with color-coded measures of dangerous heat waves.
Food supplies were reduced by drenched fields unable to grow crops. The record heat wave and flooding that left one-third of Pakistan under water have unleashed “dark clouds of mosquitoes” spreading malaria. The Washington Post yesterday front-paged a huge headline “Climate-Linked Ills Threaten Humanity,” followed by the sub-headline: “Pakistan is the epicenter of a global wave of climate health threats.” The reporters opened their long analysis with almost biblical language: “The floods came, and then the sickness.” Very recently, the headlines have been steering us toward what happens in the aftermath of natural disasters in afflicted regions around the world. The immediate human casualties are devastating. For years the media headlines have been describing record floods, droughts, wildfires, heatwaves, hurricanes and other fossil-fueled disasters of an abused Mother Nature. The headlines on climate catastrophes are becoming more informative as they become more ominous.
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