This week, with heat index, it was over a hundred and seventeen degrees in San Antonio, Texas. The Atlantic ocean is up over 4 degrees in the last year. All signs point to these changes being man-made, and yet, governments have comprehensively failed to do enough to contain the problem. Cue individual action. In Montana, a group of 18-22 year-olds have just finished their courtroom appearance in order to force Montana to regulate their emissions. The kids argument? Montana is killing our future by not requiring environmental impact studies for their fossil fuel projects. Montana’s argument? In a nutshell, it’s too hard.

Tis the season for…fires. Lots and lots of fires along the west coast, and we start out this episode getting caught up on the season. One of the said fires was the result of corporate malfeasance (alleged). Is anyone being held accountable for that? Well…no. However many people are killed due to these fires, nobody in the company (name intentionally withheld) will be held accountable. Let’s look just a bit to the east: Texas. In Texas, the electricity outage during a severe snowstorm led to between 264 (official number reported by the state) and 700 (outside experts have said). Who was held accountable for that? Not a single damn person. Nobody was fired, and in the meantime, Texas folks were price gouged for whatever electricity they did get. You might think we’re complaining about Abbot again. We’re not. This week, we discuss how corporations don’t pay consequences, regardless of the fact that they kill people. Got to break a few eggs to make a healthy profit, amirite?

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