Greetings. I'm off to the airport, but wanted to reflect on something that's been on my mind for a bit and was accentuated with a news announcement in the last week.

Last summer I was biking and hiking in northern Wisconsin and I saw these signs that had a beautiful blue silhouette of Lake Superior and then some words

that said not for sale.

And I thought they were like some real estate agent that was doing the don't think of an

elephant.

Like this house is not for sale meaning that it is but I saw

hundreds of them in biking around so I got back to my Airbnb and I looked it up

and what this is about is local people around the shores of Lake Superior are becoming

active to avert and avoid people in the Southwest building

pipelines to transport the water from Lake Superior to areas that need water, not for sale.

And they're drawing a line in the sand.

For many of you that live in Minnesota, especially, you might have seen last week the

Biden administration announced a 20-year moratorium on the metals and mining in the Boundary

Waters canoe area.

There is copper and nickel there and there's been this long fight

between environmentalists and people in industry to avoid the environmental pollution from

drilling in the Aquatico and Boundary Waters area. You know, this all brings up this issue of what is for sale in our culture.

Last week I talked about two scenarios where if we continue to grow, if we are able to

generate productivity from a combination of technology

and available resources, that will gradually head towards a Mordor economy. Under that scenario,

if it happens, we will be resource and sync and beauty constrained.

Under the other scenario,

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