The front page of the NYTimes perfectly encapsulates capitalism's inability to deal with it's existential crisis. One article describes how climate change is affecting migrating geese and the next article describes the next big oil boom in Guyana (without once mentioning climate change). While most small children would instantly recognize the disconnect, this deadly dissembling is invisible to adults indoctrinated by capitalist ideology.
The author of the oil boom article presents a trite, sophomoric rundown of all the other problems a "boom" can create for "poor, under-developed" countries but the notion that the emissions from burning the oil will further the current ecocide just never seems to occur. It is cloaked in a way that is terrifying if you stop to think about it. So don't.
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