Swept sky, sheer blue.
Free to all, clear view.
Sun shine, millions watts.
No logo or corporate spots.
Giant tree, trademark free.
Towering trunk, branchy bough—
Won’t cost you any dough.
Ocean water, it’s for you.
Just be its steward, clean, renew.
Swim, enjoy, sail, fish,
Rent it not to capitalists.
This was written in 2020 and says the final step is revolution or handouts to achieve quelled masses again.
https://www.theatlantic.com/
magazine/archive/2020/12/ can-history-predict-future/
616993/
Sorry I have no gift paywall link.
It was one of the scariest things I've ever read, but it reads like prophecy.
Thoughts?
Submit Comment to BLM to Stop Proposed Giveaway to Fossil Fuel Companies
About: When fossil fuel drilling companies drill on public lands, current Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rules require them to post a bond for $125,000 to cover the expense of plugging wells and remediating sites. Now BLM wants to reduce these bonds to only $10,000, while the cost for statewide drilling bonds would be reduced from $500,000 to only $25,000.
It costs around $90,000 to plug a well and remediate a site. Currently, 2 million inactive, unplugged wells in the United States produce greenhouse gases equivalent to the amount emitted by 2 million to 5 million cars per year. The proposed rule would make it easier and cheaper for fossil fuel companies to drill on public lands while sticking taxpayers with the bill for cleaning up their mess.
That’s why your comment is so important. But get this: if it is enacted, the new rule will reduce the opportunity for public comment of proposed sale or leasing contracts from 90 days to merely 10 days. Public lands belong to the public, and we should have a reasonable opportunity to comment on and challenge how the government proposes to use them.
Please take a moment to write and submit a comment to BLM using this public comment toolkit. Comments will be accepted through August 29. Agencies are required to review all public comments and respond to significant comments
I'm writing a fiction book on navigating the emotional weight of being an teacher and would like to see which of my many working titles engages English teachers....
1 (Philosophers Don't Change Diapers)
2 (The Gravity of Human Misery)
3 (Stage Six Does Not Exist)
4 (The Gravity of Human Misery is an Irresistible Tide)
5 (When Life's a B!tch, Call One)