Kathleen woke up that morning feeling alive. It was her birthday after all and she had made it. She was assistant manager at a prominent store and had the respect of all her colleagues. They knew of her high esteem in the community. Well the ones that mattered anyway.
     After eating a highly nutritious and environmentally correct breakfast, she headed off to her crossfit class. It was important to maintain peak fitness,  not only to perform her duties at work but to show her young protege, Evelyn, what it takes to be the assistant manager at such a prestigious company...

reparations

Why should it be that we are shackled/constrained with the crimes of the dead? Let it be true that we have benefited from these sins of yesteryear but has not everyone?  Yes, at least for wealth and health, as we all have markedly exceeded these past measures as a population. Let the leaders of the underfunded spin the woes but in the end it is you who will pay the toll. Remember it is them who benefit from this system.

    

climate change

The population bomb theory was a similar doom and gloom prediction of the future by Paul Ehrlich written at the suggestion of David Brower the executive director of the environmentalist Sierra Club. He achieved fame and fortune by roaring like an old testament prophet.
    Ehrlich’s theory is that there will be a disaster for humanity due to over population.
    10 million people will be starving during each of the years in the 1970’s.
    “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and
    1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash
    programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial
    increase in the world death rate…"
    “a minimum of ten million people, most of them children,
    will starve to death during each year of the 1970s. But this is a mere handful
    compared to the numbers that will be starving before the end of the century"
    In 2001 roughly around two million people would die due to famine related causes.
    Ehrlich believed that in the United States can only support the population of 150 million. He proposed “luxury taxes could be placed on layettes, cribs,
    diapers, diaper services, [and] expensive toys…" and suggested giving
    “responsibility prizes" to couples who went at least five years without
    having children or to men who got vasectomies.”
    Do we really want to cost the economy a real 250 billion dollars of our wealth for the benefit of 0.035%?

Elena

     She often had trouble getting out of bed in the morning. Her bed was so warm and fluffy and the morning dreams were idyllic. She would dream of being successful  in school and work, an idea her co-workers would say was indeed that, a dream. She could lay there past noon most days, and did except when her mother or sister crabbed on her.  It didn't help her situation that she stayed out too late, but staying out was enchanting. She consorted with various permutations of  premeditated people, mostly though with Stacey, her compatriot and Blaine, her steamy lover. But today she had no trouble rousing, she skipped out of bed, discarded the torpor, and was ready to go. Today was Elena's birthday. Watch out world, she mused. She was the big 19 and people were going to start to take her seriously...