[Kzyxtalk] A glorious pyramidal future.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: A glorious pyramidal future.

Beverly wrote: "That's so inspiring! Why isn't this all over our local 
news? (Round Valley first Native American woman in space.)"

Marco here. Beverly, the lead-up was on KNYO a month ago, and this 
latest triumph and further details will be on KNYO this Friday night.

In Other News: I wrote to the AVA regarding the announcement of $25,000 
available for 2022/2023 Fish and Game project grants (for info, call 
Fish and Game Commission, 707 234-6094), which will also be on KNYO 
Friday night:

A suggestion I made years ago and repeat every once in awhile, to solve 
the problem of destroying nature and animal and fish habitat, and the 
problem of using up all the resources and polluting the planet, and to 
solve the day-to-day human problems of drought and wildfire and erratic 
power delivery, is as follows:

Stop putting up new houses and buildings all over the landscape, and 
stop replacing ones that fall into the earth. Make it prohibitively 
expensive to keep a private place out in a drought or flood or 
storm-damage or fire zone. And tear all the fences down that don't fall 
down by themselves. And use less than half of all the money and 
materials that currently go into all those separate structures to 
instead start a pyramid on land already as ruined for nature as it can 
get, the middle of Fort Bragg (CA), say.

At first it would look like a square plateau maybe a quarter-mile on a 
side (that's less than 10-percent of the size of current Fort Bragg CA). 
Offshore power generation by various new and old ocean-life-friendly 
methods, as well as power from solar means on the roof and proper sides 
of the structure, as well as cogenerated thermoelectric power and smart 
distribution of heat and coolth. And for backup, when the sun's not out, 
and the wind's not blowing, and the sea's not waving, and the town 
battery's being serviced: maybe one of the new, safe, small nuclear 
electric plants in a container box that they're already making now for 
military bases and remote communities. Just switch it on like a radio in 
an emergency.

As the landscape is reforested and re-wilded, burning occasionally, what 
will eventually be a steep, high pyramid is added to, floor by floor, 
employing anyone who needs a good union job, until everything is farms 
and forest and fishing and swimming holes and hiking and biking paths 
for miles and miles all around a single beautiful shining building of 
mixed-use spaces and businesses and theaters and schools, plant-lined 
vaulted caverns and thousands of big, airy apartments, an entire town of 
activities and enterprise and creativity, including small factories, 
using real recycling, to make and repair almost everything people need. 
A free hospital. With efficiency of scale and volume, construction, 
materials, heat, and cooling costs and needs go way down per person 
without all the surface area of each of thousands of separate 
structures. One big water system taking in groundwater, river water, 
desalinated seawater, and using recycling/purification too, of course. 
All earthquake-safe, and who cares how much gasoline costs? because 
nobody would need a car. Work is a stroll away, and you can take your 
lunch hour (a full hour), or full (weekly) four-day weekend, in nature, 
right outside.

Just a lovely national-park-like environment a short walk (or even 
shorter tube ride) from even the deepest (well-lighted, well-ventilated, 
3D video window-walled) living space. And, of course, fast aerial 
monorail service to all the other pyramid towns. And maybe airship 
shipping and travel. Gliding, too.

Or we can keep doing what we're doing the way we're all doing it, and 
fifty years from now everything in this area and the wider world will be 
ten times uglier and worse and essentially dead. That time is going to 
pass whatever we do, and whatever we argue about and fight over 
regarding what's important or moral or tasteful or God's will or a 
communist outrage. All that has to happen for us to have a wonderful 
future instead of a terrible one, is for owner-class people to want this 
and be just a fraction less selfish in the short term. So that's not 
happening, then. I'll mention it again in a few years, when it's even 
closer to way too late. Everybody with a nice place out in the country 
will be dead of old age by then anyway. Nobody's getting kicked off 
their spread.

--
Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org
https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com