"At 3C or more of heating by 2050, there could be more than 4 billion deaths, significant sociopolitical fragmentation worldwide, failure of states (with resulting rapid, enduring, and significant loss of capital), and extinction events." Institute of Actuaries/The Guardian, 16 Jan 2025. 80 World War Twos. And a related number of holocausts - the genocides which are inevitable in the context of such levels of mass death. Again, the obscenity here is not just the racist pathology of considering that black lives are disposable, but also that the main concern here is not the deaths themselves but how much money this is going to cost the western middle classes. And now, like 250 years ago, the liberal press reinforces this obscenity by focusing on the financial interests of its own class rather than the criminality of the diabolic neglect. Why the hell did the Guardian not make its headline about the biggest crime in the history of humanity- the killing of 4 billion of the poorest people on the planet, rather than the economic cost to those responsible for this criminality? Why was this not the front page headline? Why was it not the top "story" of the year, the decade, the century? They do not care because those to be killed are not white, they are not British, they are not "us".Nothing has changed because the power has not changed. Those with power kill because they can get away with it. Because they think they "deserve" to be rich while billions die for their privilege. The killing happens because the rich think that are "worth it". And so the Guardian thinks it can get away with it. Worst, it claims it cares about those who were killed long ago, so that this can be a cover for its killing today. So, it can be a bystander. So, it can risk nothing. Itknows what is going on. It reports on it every day of the week. It knows perfectly well the reality we face, but it refuses to act. Its complicity is beyond contempt. No doubt, if and when this article becomes the scandal it is, these liberals might consider making an apology, maybe giving a symbolic right of reply, even some compensation, a reparation even. But this is not about slavery. It is not about something which has happened in the past. Something done and finished. The killing of those 4 billion people is about to happen. It is in the process of being locked in. And then it will not stop. It will never stop. It is a crime that kills more than any other crime. It will go on forever. "There is no greater crime" as a lawyer told me. And so, it is. And as such there can only be complicity or resistance. There is no third option. The centre will not hold. The Guardian newspaper is guilty of mass murder. rogerhallam.com