This restaurant is called American Bar although, with the government permitting this violation of its role to protect people’s life, liberty, and property, it’s violating the original intent of America’s founders.

How? See how the sliding doors are wide open? Also, see the vents on the white wall facing the wide open window? Those vents are blasting air conditioning into the outdoors.

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Why should anyone care if they pollute and deplete?

This nation’s Founders (and writers of the 14th Amendment) didn’t just suggest protecting life, liberty, and property for the fun of it. They recognized that if we don’t think our future will be better than today, or that if we create something someone can just take or destroy it, we lose reason to invest in that future.

Without hope for a better future, we retreat into what we can protect ourselves. We become tribal and isolated. Sound anything like our culture today? The cost of a plundered environment isn’t just loss of trees and butterflies. We lose society—because of ourselves, not just the environment.

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A few days later I passed this cafe, all its windows and doors open as much as possible, its air conditioning blowing into the outdoors, nobody seeming to mind the violation of the founding principles of this nation.

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This building is under construction. There were a few workmen in it, but no store operating on the ground floor, no residents or offices upstairs. Yet air conditioned air was spewing out onto the sidewalk.

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This one I guess is minor in comparison since it’s only fans, which you can’t see moving in this picture, but this shed is empty and all the fans are blowing.

I could take pictures of this plunder and destruction of life, liberty, and property all summer long. I’ll stop at a few pictures for now, but will probably end up posting more as I pass cold air insouciantly dumped onto the sidewalk.

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