January 2016 Atmospheric CO2 Content 402.52; January 2015 399.96; January 2014 397.81

[Lorien]

3. Well, sure, if there were giant *short term* profits to be made

but the profits in disaster Capitalism are just too appealing to them. Want to make enormous profits from bottled water? Just poison most of the fresh water we have with Fracking fluids! It's awesome! And hey, people will need more of all consumer goods if we regularly wipe them out with monster storms, right? And they'll need more fossil fuels if we have record cold or record breaking heat waves. The money and power obsessed see environmental collapse as the gift that keeps on giving. It's hard for them to support the idea of changing course.