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We’ll need to rescue those fools, as well as our children, Nature and ourselves.
No matter how educated they are, the ultra-rich are ultra-stupid. The Koch brothers? Super well-educated. Degrees in engineering. (Okay, only one of the two is still alive. But he’s educated.) Well educated indeed. Charles Koch, the one who’s still breathing, has a degree in engineering from MIT and two advanced degrees — in nuclear and chemical engineering.
And yet he’s an idiot. I don’t mean I disagree with him on politics and other things. I do, but that’s not what I’m talking about. I mean he’s really, really stupid.
Think about it. Engineering. CHEMICAL engineering. He fully understands that his activities and the overall use of fossil fuels is destroying the habitability of the planet. He knows that due in large part to his “success,” his own grandchildren — and possibly even his (now adult) children, will suffer terribly on an ever more hostile planet, one with increasingly frequent and severe heatwaves, floods, wildfires, shortages. He knows that we are seeing NOW — TODAY — the start of a full-fledged climate collapse, one that without a serious and determined U-Turn will result in unprecedented massive suffering.
