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What she knows of social media appalls her.
the tide of misinformation and fearmongering that seems to be the news as the authorities shape it;
Dignity is a consequence of perseverance, persistence, endurance.
The world is strange beyond knowing, and life is a journey through wonders, toward mystery.
America is being reshaped from democracy to oligarchy.
Happiness and peace require patient waiting for the sight that at the moment can’t be seen.
The ruling elite loudly champion diversity but use the powerful tools of technology to shape everyone into like-minded worker bees and mindless consumers, into an obedient oneness.
dreads intrusion by bloody-minded Central American gangs, which have been sending thousands of foot soldiers across the open border; they have a history of violent turf wars and campaigns of vengeance without regard for collateral damage wrought upon the innocent.
This is a time in history when it’s best to endure the current shitstorm and keep faith that it won’t last.
These days, so many are educated into ignorance, entertained by shallow amusements that drain from them the very substance of themselves, until they seem to have become ghosts long, long before their deaths.
To generate the power needed for this one country in an all-electric age and to do it with this primitive technology, we’ll need to cover at least three hundred twenty thousand square miles with wind farms, which is four times the size of South Dakota or as vast as nearly all the states along the Eastern Seaboard. Everywhere coast to coast will be uglified.
The low pulsation of the massive hundred-forty-foot blades will agitate every creature in nature, with consequences we can’t know. Already, people living within a few miles of wind farms experience migraines, insomnia, a greater incidence of high blood pressure, and other health issues.
Because the resin blades regularly fail but are so hard they can’t be ground up and recycled, we’ll require thousands of new landfills to bury them and the millions of lithium and sodium-ion batteries that also can’t be recycled.
The endless mining, the wanton destruction of vast ecosystems on land and sea, the volume of wasted materials—this is by far the dirtiest technology we could choose. Nuclear fission, fusion, hydroelectric are all clean. Even natural gas is cleaner and far less destructive than what’s needed to harness enough wind.
