The End is Nigh
Bush and Cheney could have accepted the science of global climate change seven years ago and saved us a hell of a lot of trouble. In not doing so, they demonstrated another failure of capitalism–protecting investments is much more important than innovation, and old, established industries will kill and destroy in order to not do the obvious new thing. What if ExxonMobil had said, “The solar panel is the wave of the future, or the electric car is where we are putting our money?” They did not. In order to preserve their investments, the machine that is made up of automakers, war contractors, oil companies, agribusinesses, and their financial enablers doubled down their bets on the old industries, and now, because they have spent so much of our money to so little purpose, it is ever more clear to everyone that they have nowhere to go except the place they could have gone seven years ago at less expense–toward less reliance on oil. Selfish inhumanity compounded with blind stupidity–that’s Bush/Cheney.