The United States and Canada have prospered on the backs of Third World Nations for decades. The U.S. has practiced slavery and lately even imprisonment and torture through proxy relationships in many nations that have resulted in juntas coups and "regime-change" to yield "prosperity" to American and Canadian people. From coffee and sugar to clothing and electronics, Canadians and Americans didn't care that children worked in sweatshops under contract to huge multi-national American corporations. Only when toys contaminated by lead are sold in Toys'R'Us or poisoned animal food, or other products that bear potential for real harm are distributed by these greedy corporations, does anyone pay any attention....
North America's petroleum based "prosperity" has destroyed the planet. The greed driving this wanton destruction is the greed of consumers fed by men and women, governments and corporations without integrity and without any sense of the future...people without vision.
It's entirely appropriate that fires burn in California and British Columbia, it's entirely appropriate that bridges collapse in America and Canada.
Divereting billions to maintain an artificial "prosperity" for generations on the backs of many and various people who Canadians and Americans are happy to keep living in poverty and vulnerable to corrupt leaderships is finally coming to a "head". Social change always takes place, what the morons who are currently in charge of the world have forgotten is that change has naturally taken very long periods to evolve and emerge. That isn't the world that we all live in today.
We have corrupt governments bound to greedy empire builders interested in nothing but insulating and protecting the weathy at the cost of a planet and the cost of millions upon millions of people who suffer for this imbalance.
There are worse times ahead.
Worse times because even if you had some kind of solution that would address the enormous imbalances that see millions poor sick and homeless, working for the "Man" in New York and Toronto...the balance of nature itself has been upset.
Looks good on Humankind....
The microcosm of Israel vs. Palestine is a metaphor for the entire species.