Climate Collapse, Corruption, and the Cost of Looking Away

Mark and brock track the through lines between the ongoing tragedy in Gary, Indiana as a climate change denial story with money in politics and anti-science propaganda leading to constant weather-related disasters. Hawaii and Spokane are other recent victims. Also, the gutting of FEMA means there is no help on the way in any meaningful way. The stripping of funding from NOAA means we don't have early warning systems in place. So we are constantly blindsided. America has decided that helping each other on our worst days is not important. Of course, Gary is also a racism story. Poor and urban Black people are deemed less important so the response time unsurprisingly slow. Lives will be lost. Another example of America in decline. The podcast also picks up on the Nolan Wells saga as a microcosm of a country operating with two systems of justice and a social system that protects White behavior no matter how bad. This extends to the White House on a day-to-day basis and with the Epstein Files. The podcasts wraps up tying the Penn State cocaine ring as another example of White people expecting a system to protect them. It was a very bad couple of days in the United States with likely more ahead. Brock holds out hope White America's reaction to election interference in the Midterms could be extreme and confrontational, but Mark is not optimistic. He questions why anyone wants to live here anymore.