We use fossil fuels, including natural gas, to make electricity, the chemical pollution from these contributes massively to global warming, global warming makes for more ferocious storms, and these storms swoop in and decimate the grid. This destruction prompts people to think about ways that the grid might be made harder to destroy. Occasionally they take action on these thoughts and some small element of our infrastructure gets changed. If our aim is to prompt infrastructural reform that will work for us over the long term, then this absurdist loop is clearly the least efficient and most
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