The ecosystem and the climate are just not competitive with the programmed theater. it is so much fun to watch. If you want to get a feeling for what really matters to people just keep reading diaries about the stock market.
Never mind that investing in oil and such stuff is going to do you more harm in the long run. Never mind that capitalism has you by the parts that matter, look on in awe as the system that is causing all our problems does its periodic dance as the middle class lose a bit more and the rich gobble it up.
Read on below. I'll make it short.
As we go further into the hottest year on record if you really want to get people's attention talk about the stock market and your oil stocks. Then wonder why we can get nowhere in our struggle to stop the ravage of the planet.
The link between what is going on in the stock market and all our other problems is a tight one. Argue about whether it is a "crash" or a "correction" and debate what you should do with your holdings. By all means do not examine how the stock market is coupled to the inequality we are suffering. Do not examine how the stock market has always worked to make the rich richer and so often serves as a mechanism for stripping the middle class of the little they have.
Politics is full of people who say one thing and do another. No shortage of them here.