[Kzyxtalk] A glorious pyramidal future.

[David Gurney]

Brilliant. Stand up comedy material.

On Wed, Oct 5, 2022 at 5:33 PM Marco McClean <memo at mcn.org> wrote:
>
> 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
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