Cal@kbin.socialtoNews@kbin.social•Freight train carrying hot asphalt, molten sulfur plunges into the Yellowstone River as bridge fails
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1 year agoIt would be comical if it wasn’t so sad.
The richest country on earth can’t even maintain its own infrastructure. This is the 5th(?) such failure in short time that has made international news.
That same country suffers from economic troubles.
Solve both by funding infrastructure projects.
What’s standing in their way?
Nobody wants to listen.
When it happens it’s basically overnight. Like stretching a rubberband that you pull and pull and think it’s fine. Then you pull just a little bit too hard and it snaps. It will be impossible to put it together again.
We are no more than a few years, maybe a decade away from the hottest countries being completely unlivable. We are talking about 2+ Billion people that needs to move in a very short time. It’s coming and coming quickly. We’re not ready. Billions will die.
“The planet will be fine, it’s us humans that are fucked.” /Slightly paraphrased George Carlin.