The A1 Verse: The illusion of choice
By Thomas Gaulkin | July 12, 2021
Modified illustrations by Zdenek Sasek / Ints Vikmanis
Every so often, a story published on the front page of the New York Times is so well written, meaningful, and appropriate to the Bulletin’s concerns that small snippets of it, properly chosen and arranged, produce something more than journalism, something that approaches … poetry. That blessed coincidence occurred July 12, 2021.
We suspect it’ll occur again.
U.S. CONFRONTS CRITICAL CHOICES ON POWER LINES
(from the original by Ivan Penn and Clifford Krauss)
Once in a generation
choices about decisions:
on one side, power,
on the other, choices.
The next few years lasts for decades,
between those who want more power
and those fighting the power.
Speed up the choices.
History is a barometer
with lots of power.
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Keywords: The A1 Verse, electric grid, electricity policy, poetry, solar power, wind power
Topics: Climate Change
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Thomas Gaulkin is multimedia editor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Prior to joining the Bulletin in 2018, he spent the... Read More
