“Keep your eye on the pea. Follow every move, suckers. Our hands never leave our arms. Confused? That’s right. You can’t really know which shell hides the real gas pipeline route. ” There’s been another feint in the direction of “not there after all” with regard to the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s actual path. The energy […]
Category Archives: UnNaturalGas
Keeping the Lights On: What Choices Do We Have
As “modern Americans” we expect at least the standard of living we learned to live with while growing up–if not way better than that. I can’t think of any group of adolescents that would accept the notion–much less strive for–having LESS, and maybe far less than their parents’ upbringing has made them believe is their […]
Out of the Ashes: Life Beyond Carbon
No that is not the working title of this thing before me. But it is the punch line as I’m thinking through the story line of this book idea. It starts in a tiny community called Floyd where a pipeline threatens the local landscape and lifestyle, and pipelines-plural represent a symptom of a misguided energy […]
Life After Carbon
I’m pretending, as a fumbling fiction writer, that there will be a life after carbon. It is a thought and a hope I’d like to hold up as a possibility, though I hold serious doubts, because I do not think it possible any carbon will be left in the ground if we can get it […]