During the New Deal, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) protected America's giant sequoia trees, as well as many other trees. By putting out fires and reducing wildfire fuel, the CCC boys greatly reduced the amount of acreage burned in the nation's parks and forests (see, for example, my blog post, "CCC fire prevention and firefighting: How successful was it?" February 27, 2021).
Today, ignorance and apathy are killing our sequoia trees ("Up to 19% of the world's 'irreplaceable' giant sequoias lost to fire in about a year, study finds," USA Today, November 19, 2021).
Too many people refuse to acknowledge man-made climate change, and then actively block needed change. They ridicule the Green New Deal while sequoias go up in flames.
And too many people prefer to give tax cuts to the rich, instead of providing more revenue to government for needed firefighting resources (more manpower, more equipment). The rich, in turn, use their extra after-tax money to buy European mega-yachts, luxury doomsday bunkers in New Zealand, private islands, and politicians (how any of these "job creator" investments create good-paying American jobs I do not know).
Jeff Bezos even wants to build a space hotel--called "Orbital Greed Reef"--so that, I assume, billionaires can watch the sequoia smoke from the comfort of their luxury, celestial suites.
Yes, our planet heats, burns, and floods... as the 1% build spaceships for their 1% progeny to escape in. And the duped and doomed masses will wave goodbye to the billionaire brats rocketing off to Andromeda, comforting each other as the flames approach, "Well, after all, it was their money."
How funny (as in, sick) is that?
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