Going Solar

I HAVE A DREAM, and together we can make it come true. A circular piece of aluminum foil, one mile in diameter, plaed in orbit near the Earth, following the sun. Constantly reflecting sunlight, this should be enouh to generate an incredible amount of energy, beaming the light down to Earth to a facility which gathers and purifies sea water, turning it into fresh water, desalination. Why we ( humanity) aren't already doing this is a great mystery. The solar energy collector could be assembled in space, could be made almost any size, easily placed in a favorable location for sunlight gathering and transmission, and would probably last a long time, and more than pay for itself. A system of pipes could carry water from the facility in, say Los Angeles harbor, and nourish L.A., southern California, heck, the whole American west. We turn millions o f acres of desert into rich, fertile land, growing crops and trees and wilderness for habitat. Meanwhile, we quickly get at leaaast a trillion new trees inthe ground, and within a few years, we (humanity) have a trillion more large trees, like we should already have. The very thought of any more summers, next summer, or summers into the future, being like this one, I find horrifying. The summer of two thousand and twenty two has simply got the be the worst summer, weather wise, climate wise, in my entire life, which began in 1955. I feel a renewed desperate surge of necessity to do something, anything, to mitigate climate change, until our descendants, and may they come along soon, actually find a way to resolve the problem, which curently seems to threaten our very existence. It is easy to think about decades of climate change denial by American conservatives, and become furious. Even now a conservative Democrat, Joe Manchin, who keeps geting richer on fossil fuel investments refuses to allow President Biden's massive climate change fighting package to go forward in the Senate. I Hope Senator Manchin enjoys his billion dollar bank account while the atmosphere turns into a perpetually steaming, boiling cauldron of poisonous gases and heat.