From CNN, “A fire that started Tuesday afternoon at a recycling plant in the eastern Indiana city of Richmond was emitting toxic smoke and has forced evacuation orders for about 2,000 people as it is expected to burn for days, officials said. Early air monitoring results are expected early Wednesday, Wayne County officials said. Plastics were among the items burning at the plant, and the smoke – a thick, black column rose from the site Tuesday – is ‘definitely toxic,’ Indiana State Fire Marshal Steve Jones said in a news briefing.”
First, it’s no coincidence that this happened in a red state, just like the train derailment in Ohio and that toxic spill. These RepubliKKKlan states have little oversight and regulations over businesses, so they can run risky operations with impunity because the likelihood that sh*t firms will be held accountable is low. When a disaster does happen, it becomes an “oh, well” situation. It’s a one-off, so no need to start regulating now. People get the government they deserve and desire. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Second, humanity is killing itself. Full stop. Catastrophes like this always remind me of what humanity is doing to itself, which will ultimately lead to our demise. I’ve said this before and will keep saying it until I’m dead: Nature will restore balance to Mother Earth. This is why I get absolutely apoplectic when I hear idiot RepubliKKKlans rail against the “social ills” of America that are supposedly engendering male infertility. (I’m taking an unusual turn here, but this latest ecological mess converges both political and environmental issues.) You have morons on the right claiming that “wokeness” is causing men to become effeminate, thereby reducing their sperm count, while Tucker “Moron” Carlson proclaims ball tanning is a cure. Similarly, women are unable to get pregnant because they are too liberalized. Because women have too much freedom and decision-making power, it leads to lower birth rates. Of course, this is all bullsh*t, but that doesn’t stop stupid Americans from believing. (Apparently, buying and displaying guns in public also helps generate higher sperm count and causes women to become wet and ovulate.) The reason for male and female infertility is much simpler: It’s biological, not societal, and these toxic disasters are a prime example of nature communicating to our species that the environment is not conducive to reproduction — by our own doing! Of course, the Indiana and Ohio disasters are two acute toxic incidents that are not directly causing infertility issues more broadly, but they are indicative of a century of humanity poisoning itself. And we wonder why the population is leveling off or declining.
There is also, no doubt, the more subtle — yet still biological — urge for people to look around at the environment and decide that they don’t want to bring a child into this sh*thole planet. Whatever the inherent reasoning or biological impetus, Mother Nature is killing us off — rightly — to save the rest of the planet. But whatever! Welcome to stupid humanity. We’ll learn when most of the species has died off.