Restoring damage done to the biosphere, taking carbon dioxide back out of the atmosphere — these did not yield the highest rate of return, so money went elsewhere, and thus the catastrophe struck home.
So we took over -- and obviously, with my personal upbringing of apartheid, it struck very much home not only when Black Lives Matter, but also the Asian hate and everything else.
What really strikes home is that the invasion is not described from the point of view of a politician, a scientist or a military leader in some large city, as it would become a later staple of the genre.