Intellect vs DNA.
Our ability to reason past a survival response that doesn’t work in the world we’ve created.
An epic battle. A structural change. Thought-evolution as a response to instincts gone awry.
This is how I make sense of things that I find otherwise hard to explain.
I give you George W. Bush and everything that name conjures: the power-driven, the sycophants, the torturers, the theocrats, oil companies, the chemical industry (including big pharma), republicans, homeland security…
No matter how you slice and dice it, most, if not all, of the constructs of these people/groups have dire consequences. Climate-altering. Politically-altering. Influence and affluence-altering. Species-ending.
So I ask myself, why? These people have access to the same information as I do. We share the power of observation: lighting and tornadoes in February. Rising sea levels. Drought. Over 1 million people dead in five years and inciting another 100 years war.
I mean why would anybody with all that power and access to knowledge/data/information skimp on safety precautions at chemical plants and nuclear power plants? Why would industries poison the Great Lakes?