From disaster to finance without drawing a breath

The damage from the latest U.S.
tornadoes has shocked many.

Radio National this morning told of the tornadoes that swept across 12 American states, killing six people and leaving destruction that even tornado-hardened people were aghast at.

The report, comprehensive and of a standard one expects from the ABC, was followed seamlessly by the finance report that told of an upswing on the U.S. share market illustrating that “business as usual” was in fact getting better.

The seamless switch from disaster to the cause of that disaster was made without so much as drawing a breath.

That in itself is not necessarily a bad thing, but what is depressing is our inability to see that our fiscal and pecuniary intoxication, our incessant swilling from the fountain of economic insistence, is precisely what is causing the reported tornadoes.

The Huffington Post reported on the tornadoes in a story headed: “Midwest tornadoes: severe storms sweep across 12 states, killing 6”.