Because grima wormtongue the prediction engine whispers of horrors to come in the kings ears? Take the catastrophic eain flashfloods. They have ramped up hard recently.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/10/german-v...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/237420/economic-damage-c...
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/one-de...
And then there was the morroco, greek and italian floods.
Its expected to hit mountanous areas the hardest, devaluing cities in valleys like they are in a warzone. And this is the smallest, obvious event series kept on the downlow, because society already falls apart, loosing its structure.
The panopticon is a desperate attempt to controll the only thing controllable in situations to come.