George Monbiot was speaking over Al’s shoulder, of the vandals who are wrecking the earth, and spoke of the energy industries, water and other extractive activities. But I didn’t hear him name the “war machine”, the defense and security industry, the military-industrial complex or the fin-tech infosys sustaining it all. When the masses are happy with their toys, their cars and their holidays abroad (in towerblocks of RAAC?) the war machine floats like a scum on top to be read about in newsfeeds. But, as resources become “constrained”, resources are retained by-decree for “essential services”.
As a ratio, when the scum on the top (or the frosting on a cake) is a small part of the general yumminess, unless you are directly caught up in the scum (or frosting) everything is ok: people eat cake. But when the cake dry up, the one with all the frosting (the scum) has a greater and greater proportion of what remains.
One must not forget the war machine’s (the oily boys?) greed for the energy density of petroleum derivatives. Tri-Nitro Toluene (TNT) is thrown away by the thousands of tonnes per day in artillery shells in Ukraine, and plain old kerosene/diesel flys the helicopters, F16s, drone strikes and counter strikes, drives the Leopard Tanks, and but for the nukes powers all those ships at sea.
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