Nanning, China, just went under as Typhoon Maysak smashed through. Sixteen people are still buried in a Gansu hillside.
Tornadoes stripped the roofs off buildings in Huanggang.
The ground shook in Liuzhou.
In, July 328 people were killed or disappeared as every province in the country set a heat record.
The explanation you’ll hear is climate change, but Eugene suggests to look at 2017 instead — at a law almost nobody remembers, at the aid workers who quietly disappeared after it passed, at shops that boarded up in 2020 and are still boarded up today, at churches now propping up whole towns because there’s nobody else left to do it.
Then he asks the question nobody else will touch.
“You ever notice that the areas that are hit hardest by climate change are usually those that are living under regimes that are either Buddhist, Communist or Muslim?”
You can hear him make the case yourself below:
