… But what is so infuriating isn’t just climate change, and it’s not even the refusal to systemically address the climate crisis — which is now very much a present, not future, emergency. It’s that instead of expending resources to strengthen our infrastructure, build sustainability, and better our lives we’ve been spending endlessly on violence. The federal government spends a trillion dollars on war every year. Cities spend a third of their budgets on policing. And working class people are left to face the consequences.
We are the ones left to face the floods and the fires, while billionaires escape to compounds and jet to second homes, then make charity appeals where they ask us to fundraise for the victims of these disasters. …
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