As I said in big post about my book readings for 2021 and 2022, I was reading David Suzuki's and The Big Picture. It's from 2009. He's describing crises building in 2009 and now it's 2022 and we not only haven't mitigated our behaviour, but we're actually behaving worse. And there are still idiots denying the reality of global warming and yammering about how expensive it would be to cater to the delusions of global warming fear mongers.
Rain forest depletion. Mass extinctions. Massive droughts. Shrinking glaciers. Methane bubbles. Pakistan under water.
Then there's the COVID-19 pandemic. Stupid assholes from the left and right sides of the political spectrum have decided that since governments lie and pharmaceutical companies do too that the pandemic is a fraud. It's a "PLAN-demic." The virus is just the common flu that was invented in a bio-weapons lab by the Chinese to destabilize the West (which is why the Chinese government released it in China first). Or, the virus (that is no more dangerous than the common flu) was invented in a bio-weapons lab by Anthony Fauci so that he could get rich by not killing everybody.
Nothing really happened! All those deaths in the old folks' home; all the over-crowded emergency rooms; all the cancelled surgeries; all the burned-out hospital workers; all the scenes of mass death in India; ... all business as usual. It's a hoax goddammit! Didn't you know that when John D. Rockefeller sat down with the House of Rothschild and Woodrow Wilson and Margaret Sanger to discuss their long-term plan to smash capitalism and human freedom, it was decided that, after Climate Science, the best place for activists to worm away the vitals of society from the inside was in public health management.
That's why EVERY hospital administration and EVERY local public health official is IN ON THE SCAM!!! It is a vast, terrifying conspiracy. Lots of moving parts. Lots of "crisis actors."
Apparently that is the logic of a significant number of people. The sort who think they sound intelligent when they say: "I would rather die of COVID than live in fear of it." Yes genius. Dying from not protecting yourself from something that you knew could kill you really puts you in your best light. Too bad you can only die once. I'd like to see you drive a car without brakes down a hill with no seat-belt on. Then I'd like you to walk naked through a bear-infested forest smeared with honey.
Apparently wearing a mask over your nose and mouth ["Duh! The nose TOO???"] during a pandemic featuring a respiratory virus is a major infringement on one's freedom. Gad! It's just so fucking stupid!!!
Then there's the absolutely inexcusable rah-rahhing for World War III and a nuclear holocaust by shit-heads astonishingly captured by the USA's ridiculous narrative for the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Apparently mad-men with one of the world's two largest collections of nuclear weapons can be safely ignored when they say: "Don't make that large country right on my border a member of your military alliance against me!" Apparently, right before they're going to rebuild the Czarist Empire, mad-men with gigantic arsenals of nuclear weapons say; "Look! Let's sign this agreement whereby I agree to respect the Ukraine's autonomy if you'll guarantee it's neutrality."
Apparently the country that launches coups in Honduras, Venezuela, Chile, Ecuador, Haiti, and which destroyed Iraq, Syria and Libya [killing millions], and which is helping the corrupt, misogynist, obscurantist regime in Saudi Arabia conduct a genocide in Yemen, is just passionate about the lives and the freedom of Ukrainians that have been endangered by this UNPROVOKED Russian attack!
This is GOOD vs. EVIL, RIGHT vs. WRONG.
Humanity is too stupid to survive. We don't deserve to.