Photo: Boris Roessler/dpa (Photo by Boris Roessler/picture alliance via Getty Images) Boris Roessler/picture alliance/Getty ImagesĮurope's flood tragedy didn't have to be this severe Numerous houses in the town were completely destroyed or badly damaged, and there are many fatalities. He said that he was “very, very disturbed” by the provisions he believes would phase out fossil fuels.ĭpatop - 19 July 2021, Rhineland-Palatinate, Altenahr: Two brothers weep in each other's arms in front of their parents' house, which was destroyed by the flood.
(As I described in a recent column, ExxonMobil and the lobbyist himself subsequently denied, walked back, and apologized for what the lobbyist said on the covertly recorded tape, so we can rest easy, fellow citizens of our idiocracy!)Īfter President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats on the Budget Committee announced an early agreement on a budget reconciliation package that includes, among other things, provisions to tackle climate change, Manchin predictably raised objections. And each stands shoulder to shoulder with the fossil-fuel industry.Įarlier this month, an ExxonMobil lobbyist called Manchin the “kingmaker,” and said he is in contact with the senator’s office once a week. Each has received more than $2 million during their careers in campaign contributions from the energy and natural resource sectors. And in the current round, it is West Virginia’s two senators, Republican Shelley Moore Capito and Democrat Joe Manchin, who are the mouthpieces of the fossil fuel industry. Yet even as these disasters unfold, the US political system continues to defend fossil fuels. Extreme flooding in western Europe killed at least 185 people. The hurricane season arrived a month early in the Caribbean. The heatwaves in the Western states and parts of Canada have been relentless, not to mention deadly. Hundreds of people have already died this summer due to severe weather events linked to climate change. The Path to Recovery, a new CNN Opinion series, aims to help readers understand an economic crisis that has been building for decades and the role that the federal government should play in solving it.Instead of famine caused by fruit drink, today’s disasters are due to human-induced climate change caused mainly by burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas). Our entire political system is designed to let corporate money speak, through campaign contributions and corporate lobbying. Our most important public functions are handed over to corporate sponsors. Which brings us to America’s idiocracy in 2021. He is hailed as a genius for his simple insight. The nation is saved when an average joe, miraculously resuscitated from the distant past, reintroduces clean water to the crops, thereby saving the nation. In the meantime, the public is kept in a state of abject ignorance and distraction by demolition derbies, drugs, and debauchery. A fruit-drink company controls crop irrigation, and the nation’s crops are being poisoned by the fruit drink. Every public function has been turned over to some self-serving corporate interest. In “Idiocracy,” set 500 years in the future, America is suffering from famine.
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