Tara Imani, AIA NCIDQ CSI

“EHHH, dove è il mio rame [cooper]? Mio RAAAMEEE!” Actually - I *do* have an idea and it’s how politicians have “mob ties” to cartels. This isn’t particularly New Stuff for the U.S. to deal with. We just have a lot of powerful people who are in denial and a press who hair won’t connect these dots because too many people are willfully blind to drug use out of sheer habit (either their own (current or old habits) or people around them) I’ve had it told to me how a professor currently at NYU who did coke in the 80s and may or may not still do it says to his 23 year old daughter (she was 21 at the time) “coke is not a big deal” because he can’t admit that what HE did in the 80’s was a problem because he’s “just Fiiiine!” Similarly - admitted addict Jordan Peterson told the horrible HORRIBLE lie to millions of impressionable young people that “there’s not negative impact to cocaine once you’ve stopped use for two weeks” - complete BS. Even one dose will effectively scar the frontal lobes. So all the that is to say we have a crisis of a LACK of leadership due to massive cultural denial - and cartels and cartel interests push on these nerves to “nudge” people to not care. And PART of the consequences of this is copper being stolen, again and again - with a “whooosie! How’d THAT happen? Don’t KNOW what we could do!” attitude that’d make Roberto Benigni blush.