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From the Book of Literary Anecdotes (somewhat revised edition)

Scott Fitzgerald to Ernest Hemingway: “Ernest, the very rich are different from you and me.”

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Ernest in reply: “I’ll say! Have you seen what they pay out for refrigerators?”

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There comes a roaring alarm over the grocery loudspeakers: “Apocalypse in Aisle Three. Apocalypse in Aisle Three.”

Expect that, or a like alarm at your local food store, now that Global Warming and Big Grocery have mixed their fortunes. From here on in, they are as one. In what will surely be hailed as a masterstroke in the fight against climate change — perhaps sufficient to halt the calving of icebergs and all melt in the Himalayas — the Canadian government this week announced a $12-million grant to retrofit refrigerators for grocery chains owned by plutocratic billionaires.* (Actually, one grocery chain, one plutocratic billionaire.)