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"It is otherworldly to sit in the center of an arid place like the high desert in New Mexico and watch millions of gallons of water taken from our aquifers or rivers or our lakes pumped down to make a single gas well that contaminates that water forever."

"...entangled hazes faded hands create." --Anthony Etherin

Safe food, safe drinking water, accurate and agreed upon facts about so many things (per the OP), minimal but real workplace safety requirements, the absence of neighborhood and regional regimes of corruption and violence, all of these are things that are not only unusual within the course of human history, but within the history of the United States.

"but rimbaud (guttered from my mouth)
where are we now say who
drowned what we sing

the wood has gone sour
sapped and soundless

in courtyards bottles mounded
smashed the half of them
sawdust moldering wet ash
rotten boards bricks
broken – a din
   a deadened clatter"

--Wolfgang Hilbig via

"O, the dying are such acrobats."