Exactly - they can’t use Russia’s military strength as the boogie-man any longer.

I skimmed over your line “living envy the dead” - that’s an awesome turn of phrase.

I’m sure many (most?) people would want to stop/reduce climate change before this gets worse.

However line-must-go-up capitalism says no, because money.

Under our current capitalist system, until it affects quarterly reporting I don’t see significant change coming from corporations. On the contrary, corporations will resist change because change is risky and expensive.

I guarantee those execs think they will be building Star Trek / Federation level society. But the comment above is right, it will be Cyberpunk just with shittier technologies driven by “the invisible hand of the market” or some other drivel.

And we fuck up other places to, lets not sell the US short.

https://youtube.com/shorts/l3gBif0K6cc