I was thinking about how climate change was somehow involved in this shift. It certainly started the Oligarchs moving towards just seizing control world-wide. Holy shit. This is where the IDU fits in.
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The effect of climate change has always been presented, at least in the presentations that reach me, as some catastrophic change, where coastal cities like Vancouver, Seattle, New York, Miami, would be inundated and flooded out. Of course, that's silly. In reality, it more subtle, more gradual, more 'boil the frog' kind of change. Weather and seasons always oscillate, and we get a nice, long, warm summer, and the next year, cold, wet, short. A winter that has 8 weeks of -35c temperatures, and wind, then a winter that rarely hits -2, and ends around March 1.
So we expect and hope, that maybe it will be a good summer and we can have lots of BBQ's, and hope that we get a good winter, where the air doesn't hurt my face every time I go out.
What climate change is recognition that we are adding energy into the system. And we equate energy to power. The oscillation is more powerful. The hot stretches last longer. The storm season creates more powerfull storms, and more of the hurricanes and Cat 5, and more of the Tornados are F5's. The winter storms drop and larger amount of snow, we continually break records. Once in a hundred year storms and rainfalls are happening every decade.
I think it was Warren Buffer commented on 9/11 and the losses to business incurred there. "They didn't properly price the risk". They knew terrorist attacks where rising, and that the chances of an attack with catastrophic consquences were rising. But they didn't change the rates they were charging, and the insurance business lost a bunch on 9/11.
Pricing insurance for climate change could be tricky, but is there a more concrete example and edenville. The insurance (and premiums) are probably no where near enough to cover the damages, and the insurance company might take a bath, as climate change causes a once-in-a-hundred year storm to take out a bunch of dams, and flood the countryside, in the middle of a pandemic.
Climate change has to be where our change starts. The recognition that we are causing changes to weather, and we might have to change our ways. And to pay for changing our ways, we might have to tax the rich. And they were having none of that.
So here we are. A pandemic pushed up the schedule. The IDU is pushing to get right-wing govts in power around the world. There has been a campaign to break up NATO, by separating Britain from the EU. There is dictatorships in China, Russia, and the USA on the verge of becoming one. South America, and Central America and a mess of right-wing dictators, and weak lefties. Mexico might turn out a hero, but the rest our troubled. There was a valiant effort in install a right wing government in Canada, which failed. They continue to try to fracture Canada by weakening Alberta to the point of failure.