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They burn fuel like it’s going out of style so good job Earth for shitting back on them.
As the petrocos literally set the world on fire, my one solace is that they still have to live in the world they've fucked over.
I get the tone of the conversation here (i.e. "hah, good"), but Dubai is a metaphor-made-real for the future world at this point. The wealthy elite in their glittering towers who gorged on a burning planet are fine. They're far above the water and their biggest inconvenience is the damp wheels of their nine-litre civilian tanks at the water laps on the twenty-lane highways, and that's the photo that is being splashed across every page. But their wealth and prosperity was built on the backs of the millions of slaves living in shanties and slums living under those highways and on unpaved wastelands. They're dead but they'd already been marginalized by the elites to the extent that they were legally not really people anyway. They're disposable and replaceable, they will be disposed of and replaced.
Any hardship experienced by the elite minority will be borne a thousand times over by the proletariat majority. We really need to be careful what we wish for.
I don't usually wish drowning on anybody
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