Is this the real Running Man?.*
A planet consumed by the rich, a playground only for those who can afford it, and the slaves left behind to fight the plague.
So, I might be hitting harder than necessary — except when fossil fuels still ignite the future and repercussions of a global nature keep causing catastrophic results, who can blame me.
True to Fogy form, the unrelinquished slide into a forlorn future keeps flaming the fires of disaster.
What has to be seen, of course, is the effort put into highlighting the plights of the less fortunate and the more than perceptible threats global warming represents. The scene, the responses, with indigenous peoples protesting the collapses of their own worlds through the selfish choices made by a world oblivious to the importance of balance.
Although not unexpected, there were high hopes that enough resolve would be found to begin laying more groundwork behind the introduction of — and the monitoring of — measures that would reduce this world's dependency on petroleum as a sole source of combustible energy.
Alas, the power of those nations enriched through such a prolonged need extends to world economies becoming more and more dependent on the vast consumer mass that drives growth and lending, fulfilling selfish nation-centric advancements forced forward on an express train of “get it done now while the iron is hot” mentality.
The inevitability of future measures becoming obligatory weighs on the minds of those still endeavouring to make the most of a present-day uncertainty, until that certainty collapses.
Underlying all of this must be that false hope that technology will find a way — in the near future — to reverse the course of global warming, where temperatures will begin dropping to more forgiving levels and future generations will not have to step out of frying pans into an ever-hottening fire.
Shame on them. Shame on those short-sighted individuals that place wealth and power above everything else.
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