EatingThe Seed Corn

The Village Idiom explains: In the idiom "eat one's seed corn", the phrase refers to consuming or disposing of valuable resources without considering the long-term consequences. It implies a short-sightedness and lack of foresight, often resulting in detrimental effects on future prospects or success. Salomé BalthusUwe Hauth, CC BY-SA 4.0 More than a year ago in Going Out With A Bang I quoted Salomé Balthus: 'The elephant in the room is climate change. Everyone knows it can't be prevented any more,' she said, adding that the 'super rich' could generally be split into two groups on the topic. 'The one group thinks it only affects the poor, the "not-white race", while the others fear that it could get worse but there's no sense in trying to do anything about it so they just enjoy themselves,' In fact both groups have decided to steal everything they can get their hands on to fund their retreat to bunkers on private islands protected by armed autonomous humanoid robots. Below the fold I…