all subsides, but the water rises. one thing that showed so painfully clearly the insanity at the helm of this brutal ship was a scene in the doc raging grannies; after one of the sweet grannies interrupted a wall street love fest to ask if exponential growth is killing us a big power-tied motherfucker came up right in her face and said, you old cunt, i will kill you. the sad part is i was astounded more by her composure and bravery than his disgusting attack. 
the reefs are dying, the permafrost is melting, and we go about our business as if none of this is in our control if it is in fact happening, and we criticize as alarmist and marginalize as insane the sentient who see doom not in some airy future but now. the system is doomed.