It's the 22nd anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol. Someone last night tweeted a graph of Kyoto energy projections and energy industry projections and it was like the General Lee flying off a fucking ski jump.

"The simple formula is that around the planet, six million people are brought into a flooding situation for every centimetre of sea-level rise. So, when you hear about a centimetre rise, it does have impacts," he told BBC News.

David Wallace Wells pointed out that something like 90% of the climate change we're experiencing has been caused by the past three generations. It's all post-war Boomer shit, really.

I stopped listening to NPR in 2002 when they ran a piece about how the economy couldn't be too terrible, after all, Gulfstream was hiring and had a massive backlog.

Here's the thing: Both Honda and Mitsubishi have both recently decided that there's a future in business jets.

And sure. Maybe they'll go electric. And sure. The future of aviation has been demonstrated to be regional. But I can't help looking at all this and recognizing that the money? The money knows we aren't going to get our shit together on climate change and the money knows that the 1% is gonna need to get around without having to look at the unwashed.

I've got four employees on the payroll. One of 'em just bought a house and gutted the thing; her mortgage is three times mine but you know what? She didn't have any options to go cheaper. She wants to have a baby and we know she can't afford it. She'd like more work. I'd like to give her more work. Work comes from the universe, not from me. One of our other employees bartends on the side. She's got $200k in debt and needs to study for her boards. Another is neck deep in a thesis battle that has had me proofreading the damn thing a half-dozen times. She can't afford to make rent and we're paying about 20% over market. I told my wife we should give bonuses this year because everyone's hurting and my wife pointed out that our profits don't include the taxes we expect to pay for next year, which were a gobsmacking amount of money. I'm giving no one benefits, I'm giving no one a retirement and I own a thriving business. Meanwhile Adam Neumann made half a billion dollars renting office space for 20% less than he leased it for.

Meanwhile there's a 2019 Boxster S out front because Frau Grau ate her convertible top controller, which needs to come from Germany. So I've got a $88k loaner for a week (and counting) while a Porsche dealership clears a warning light for $3500. Can I afford to pay $3500 to keep my car drivable? Yeah, really, I can. So what the fuck am I bitching about. There's 700,000 Rohingya fleeing genocide, 5 million Syrians are no longer Syrians (and 6 million are internally homeless) and friendly reminder, we're holding more than 50,000 people in border detention camps and refusing them flu shots and paying McKinsey to tell us they don't need food.

You know what the social safety net really is? It's piece of mind for taxpayers that someone is looking out for all the people they can't help. And I can't believe in it today.