Is Climate Change Selective Now? Or Are We Just Being Lied To?

A bewildered individual once stood confidently and declared that climate change is the cause of potholes on our roads.

Let that sink in.

Climate change.

Not poor construction.
Not substandard materials.
Not neglected maintenance.
Not corrupt contracts.
Not cost-cutting.

Climate change.

So naturally, a simple question follows, one that nobody rushing to repeat talking points ever seems eager to answer:

What happened to the roadways, pathways, driveways, and private lanes of the rich and famous?

Did climate change politely step around them?
Did the rain avoid gated communities?
Did the sun only expand asphalt in working-class districts?

Or is “climate change” suddenly prejudiced?

Because last time anyone checked, physics doesn’t discriminate by income bracket.

The Actual, Uncomfortable Truth About Potholes

Potholes do not magically appear because the planet is warming.

They form because of engineering failure and maintenance neglect.

Here’s the real process, simple, boring, and devastatingly honest:

1. Water penetrates cracks in the road surface.

2. The foundation beneath the asphalt weakens.

3. Traffic pressure repeatedly stresses the compromised area.

4. The surface collapses.

5. The hole grows.

6. The cycle repeats.

That’s it. No mystery. No ideology. No buzzwords.

Rain has existed forever. Heat has existed forever. Roads that are properly designed, properly drained, and properly maintained do not suddenly disintegrate because the weather behaves as expected.

Weather exposes weakness.
It does not create it.

Maintenance Is Not Optional—It’s Structural Law

When roads are not structurally maintained, a predictable cycle of damage appears:

• Small cracks ignored become large fractures

• Minor wear becomes major failure

• Temporary patches become permanent eyesores

• Costs multiply instead of decreasing

This isn’t accidental. It's negligence dressed up as inevitability.

Governments know this. Engineers know this. Contractors know this.

Yet instead of accountability, the public is handed a convenient scapegoat, one that can’t argue back.

Funny How Neglect Has a ZIP Code

Notice something else?

• High-income areas get resurfacing.

• Tourist zones get priority repairs.

• Private developments stay smooth.

• Government corridors stay intact.

But suddenly, in ordinary neighborhoods, “the climate did it.”

If climate change were truly the culprit, damage would be uniform.
If heat were the cause, luxury driveways would buckle first.
If rain were the issue, well-engineered roads would still survive.

But they do survive.

Because money buys maintenance, not immunity from weather.

This Isn’t About Denying Climate—It’s About Denying Lies

This isn’t a denial of climate realities.
This is a rejection of intellectual dishonesty.

Blaming potholes on climate change is not environmental awareness; it’s administrative cowardice.

It’s what happens when:

• Infrastructure budgets are mismanaged

• Oversight is absent

• Quality control is sacrificed

• And responsibility must be dodged

So instead of fixing the root problem, the narrative is adjusted.

Call It What It Is: Potholes are not acts of nature.

They are evidence.

Evidence of:

• Poor planning

• Cheap materials

• Deferred maintenance

• Failed leadership

• And public disrespect

The roads are breaking because the systems maintaining them are broken.

And no amount of climate rhetoric will patch structural neglect.

If the explanation sounds insulting to common sense, that’s because it is.

Weather reveals cracks.
Neglect creates them.

And until people stop accepting polished excuses over plain truth, the potholes, physical and systemic, will keep getting deeper.