Building the Future

IN SAUDA ARABIA, ther is a plan to construct a single building five hundred meters high, two hundred meters across, and about one hundred and seventy one kilometers in length. The outside of it will reportedly be covered entirely with mmirrors. The building will be a city, of roughly nine million people, acording to the plan, which evidenty was drawn up by some of the world's best urban planners and architects, and has the approval of the Saudi government, meaning the royal family, the king and his assistants, including the crown-(clown) prince, Mr. Bin Salmon. construction has already began, and by the year twenty thirty at least one point five million people are expected to already be living in it. In every nook and cranny of the giant building-indoor city, everyone who lives there will be within a five minute walk to nearly anything anyone can possible imagine needing, certainly all the basics and staples. The mirrors on teh entire outside of teh structure wil enhance the sensation tha the building is part of nature, blening in with and reflecting its surroundings. With regard to energy, food, and water sources, the new city will apparently be completely carbon neutral, and will damage, deplete or destroy no resources nor life. A sustainable city of the future, which, when you consider how narrow it is across (about two hundred meters) will actually take up consiedrably less ground space than other cities of nine million people. Amazing, to be watching the future unfold in science fiction style. even better, there are predictions that the solutions to climate change are already within our grasp, the we need only implement them, and that a rejuvenated "born again" planet Earth could be achievable within this century. Hallelujah and amen to that, right-o? The Biden administration and most of teh world's progressive governments and thinkers are on board with the "thirty by thirty" plan, according to which by the year twenty thirty a mimimum of thirty percent of teh world's land area and ocean area will be given over completely to wildlife habitat and wilferness. The plan's primary opponents, surprise surprise, are American conservatives. American conservatives, including Trump's special evangelical Christian MAGA mob, endorse the idea of exploiting one hundred percent of Earth's resources for profit, capitalistically and corporationally. You may recall their "bring back coal" plan, which, thank the dear lord, died with the Trump administration.