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The Banks Know What’s Coming
Wall Street’s (not so) quiet pivot to thriving in a world that’s burning.
We’re Already Living the (Unnoticed) Dystopia
You ever get the feeling you’ve already missed something big? Like everyone’s bracing for some seismic shift — economic collapse, total climate breakdown, societal unraveling — and you’re just sitting there, realizing the quake hit years ago and nobody told you. That’s the sensation I can’t shake when I write about climate change, the polycrisis, and the steady erosion of the systems we rely on. We’re obsessed with the future — 2040, 2050, 2100 — as if that’s when the floodgates will open and everything will finally “start” getting bad. But what if they already opened? What if we’re already neck-deep and just haven’t looked down?
I mean, sure, the internet’s still running. The grocery stores are mostly stocked. You can still get a pizza delivered in under an hour. But all of that exists in the same world where ecosystems are collapsing, authoritarianism is on the rise, and the temperature keeps creeping up like a pot you left on low heat. The illusion of normalcy is persistent, but it’s just that: an illusion. We’re the frog in the saucepan, cracking jokes while our legs slowly go limp.
