Welcome JJ! You wrote this, which is very good;
"Perhaps it’s merely fate. Perhaps it’s just our time to die like everything eventually does and nothing can change it, but for certain, history will not be kind to this generation as the record will show that when the ship of State sprung a leak and began to list her occupants were too busy arguing about how to apply the patch and she sunk from lack of attention.
I have no more hope for change or for a fix or for anything else coming from Washington save a bunch of hot air, and it’s going to take a whole hell of a lot more than hot air to keep the folks sitting around their stoves next winter warm so I’m closing with . . . one more time.
“IT”S EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF!”
Escape for now, but remember it’s not over. The rule of the Corporation will end when it self destructs . . . rearm and prepare yourselves for combat. The day of the Environmentalist will come and the Earth will rejuvenate herself once again."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILahdcT7UswThis summer we will know how much time we have left. I'll continue to keep up the hope that humanity will do enough in time to stop the process before it is a fully developed positive feedback loop.
There is no escape........