bursting our banks
just when you thought it couldn't get any worse ... woke up this morning to the roar of floodwaters rising in the river a few meters away, turned on the radio and heard that banks worldwide were struggling with yet another disaster. And just like the muddy, sewage-laden brown water threatening to float our garden away, the mess the banks are floundering in is totally of our own devising - a simple pyramid scheme gone wrong, not unlike the ever-escalating consequences of decades of carbon emissions now becoming all too apparent, as a quick look out of the window showed.
Not long ago someone at a party called me a Fat Cat because I work for a bank. (I'm not the one who has three houses, I thought, but didn't say). But when you hear Nicola Horlick explaining to her investors that their exposure to the latest scam was actually a good thing because
well, you really can't blame people for hating us. |
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