The planet was polluted, the oceans were half-dead, the air was hazardous. The CRC were about to send in Pax Humanis to "begin the cleanup" when something ... strange happened. The planet was getting cleaned up, healthcare reform was happening, and people had proper equipment to survive the toxins. And who ordered this? Of all people, the NEW CEO who'd just taken over! -- Fighting Fit
The finger had been on the metaphorical trigger when the change in regime happened. It wasn't announced to the greater Galactic Alliance, merely celebrated as a "shining example" to other Deregger women. What they, too, could do with the right bootstraps.
Lies, of course. They picked her out as the highest-ranking representation of her gender so they could then push her off the Glass Cliff[1].
They did not figure on Thermidora Katafaulk's determination and resources. Her first order of business was to give all employees a thriving wage and therefore boost the economy enough for the next step.
Wind power, both urban and industrial, set up wherever there was so much as a breeze. Followed closely therafter by air scrubbers to remove pollutants and industrial filters to eliminate the replacing offenders.
Until the water supply was clean, every citizen was entitled to free LifeStraw.
PSA's joined edutainment dramas regarding what was good for the health and what was terrible. Food quality gradually increased alongside advisories regarding the same.
It was quite the dramatic turnaround.
Only once the sun permeated the smog did the solar initiative commence. By then the education system was turning out graduates who were working on ways to turn waste products into useful ones.
Then Thermidora politely asked for the Alliance's help on how to proceed. Many of her citizens were shunning free medicine and preventative care since she, the CEO, was subsidizing all medical interventions.
The CRC, agog, offered the use of Pax Humanis on the retired CEO's anyway. Since they were the ones who had left her on the precipice of the Glass Cliff in the first place.
Thermidora thanked them politely and added, "It's not necessary. I already had my own agents take care of them."
[1] A practice in which the CEO's who ruined the business put a woman in charge to figuratively take the fall for them. The CEO's take the golden parachute and the ladies take the blame.
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