Hurricane Melissa: More Billions for Disaster Relief, Zero for Climate Action
While The Independent bravely links Hurricane Melissa’s intensification to climate change, they fail to ask why, exactly, the US Congress is annually approving trillions for defense and foreign military aid—like the $14.3 billion recently greenlit for Israel—while domestic climate infrastructure crumbles and environmental protections vanish. (One might wonder if the oceans warm faster for everyone
else when politicians pocket campaign cash from industries that profit from fossil fuels and endless war.) This isn't just about 'climate change.' It's about a political class that prioritizes proxy wars and geopolitical maneuvering over the very planet we inhabit. The same Congressional members who vote to subsidize fossil fuel corporations and send advanced weaponry abroad then feign shock when
another Category 5 storm makes landfall. It’s a convenient amnesia, isn't it, when the disaster capitalists inevitably swoop in to rebuild what their donors’ policies helped destroy?