Your analysis of economic survival is just plain wrong.

I am writing this from a hospital bed. This bed is a black hole of ruin. American economics is not unlike genocide. It kills with a particular focus.

The inevitable confrontation found in the structures of self-created inequality invented by the animal Homo Sapiens is immoral. The men who own so much of the planet are immoral. I would burn capitalism to the ground if I could. But poor people, and people made poor are essentially powerless.

The only hope for any justice whatsoever, is the reality that when global warming causes humanity to go extinct, just like it did 40,000 years ago with the subspecies Neanderthal, a part of humanity that had evolved to endure cold, not warming, and not unlike other warm-blooded mammals, disappeared, billionaires will die just like the rest of us. Oh, they will be the last men (note gender) standing, but climate change will not only wipe them out financially, but they will face  death, too,  because what goes around, comes around. Economics pretends it is scientific and is not influenced by metaphor. Only by science. But even charts and graphs are metaphors that attempt to explain.

Economics is also a moral thermometer. The only justice to be had is that enormous greed as a human trait will become extinct when we all become extinct. Yes, there are consequences to politics and economic public policy. There is also consequence to inequality that causes power to be held by a few individuals. Not one of whom has trouble getting an audience in the White House.

With warming, the whole ball of wax will melt. It is too late for us to save ourselves. Billionaires will only save other billionaires until they can’t. Just look around. The science of climate change ignores the real tipping points. We have also created blind spots we dare not see.

They are not out there in an enigmatic future. They are all with us now. I know lots of scientists who privately articulate the reality that we have already passed the point of no return, but it’s probably best to not facilitate panic or panic is what will construct public policy.

When it comes to public polity, I think people need the truth. And the truth is that we are incapable of the adaptation necessary to create economic structures that at one point may have saved us. Nothing will save us. Trump has simply revved up the great machine.

Americans are too stupid to care. Morally, our species is so breathtakingly indifferent, we do not deserve to survive the extinction of species after species. We deserve to go first, not last. Nuclear warfare is ephemeral. The dominant males who set out to accumulate power have, indeed, accumulated it.

No one and nothing can take what they have done back. We should be looking at what we have done as the context of  WHO AND WHAT WE ARE. It is not a hopeful picture. Hope is just another cultural metaphor attempting to explain the actions of a species whose disassociation from the reality that we have failed to nurture or save anyone or anything.

The only thing about extinction that interests me is to see the billionaires twist in the wind as they attempt to make it to Mars.