What Privilege Looks Like
Blair Imani is a: “writer, mental health advocate, and historian living at the intersections of Black, Queer, and Muslim identity.”
The point she makes here is spot-on. There are no crises that are going to affect the filthy rich. Foul air and water, fierce heat waves, catastrophic storms, world hunger, and tyrannical governments are disasters that affect others.
Of course, it’s still possible that humankind can achieve a sustainable civilization before it’s too late, but that will require moneyed interests to participate in finding solutions to our physical and political woes.
At left we see a fairly recent (last couple of decades) discovery in astrophysics.
The graphic below explains a lot about our world, and the brutal Saudi empire in particular.
The sickening truth about the unprecedented flooding shown here is that no one in the moneyed class could possibly give a s*** about it.
Obama is 100% correct here. As few as 10 years ago, Republicans stood for conservative principles that offered, at least purportedly, real value for those who shared these political philosophies.
America is a country peering into a future in which the gap between the haves and have-nots can only be expected to widen as time passes.
We’re often reminded of how nonsensical our world is.
I’m amazed to find legitimate, intelligent environmental activists support Elon Musk because of the role he’s playing in forwarding the cause of electric transportation.
Some days, good news just rains down upon us. Not only did we learn today that the DoJ is getting closer to indicting Trump on charges of stealing classified government documents and obstructing justice, but, on another front, the EU took a big step towards removing coal from its grid-mix.
Well, Jo, I would think your position as laid out here is shared by the vast majority of American women.
