Shall we celebrate Minnesota's Earth Day with a Doughnut?

As you know (we hope), tomorrow is Earth Day 2021. Minnesota's most recent environmental score card leaves a lot to be desired. (We're glad none of our report cards were this bad when we were in school.) But we want to offer a positive suggestion to the Walz administration, the one that isn't doing well on either climate or water. [We really would like to see the Walz administration be more successful, since the other party (GQP) is likely to offer an even worse track record. Just look at the Minnesota Senate.]

Here's our proposal: We recommend, in the strongest possible terms, that the Walz administration, through its Environmental Quality Board and its Department of Commerce and its Housing Agency, etc., announce that it is going to prepare Minnesota to join those leading communities that are adopting a Doughnut Economics Model to guide their decisions.

According to that hotbed of socialism😉, the World Economic Forum, doughnut economics is the new economic model that could help end inequality. Isn't inequality one of the major underlying factors contributing to racism, urban — rural splits, homelessness, and related issues?

As a starting point, we propose the Walz administration use this report as a template and prepare a similar status report on where Minnesota stands regarding its own doughnut measures. They could call it:

The State of the Doughnut in Minnesota

The "Doughnut" model

 

Or, we could continue with a model known as

Proprietary

By Randall Mann

In a precisely lighted room, the CFO speaks

of  start-to-start dependencies.

Says let me loop back with you.

Says please cascade as appropriate.

It’s that time of morning, so we all can smell

the doughnut factory. If scent were white

noise, doughnuts would be that scent.

The factory won’t sell at any price.

The building next to it burns the animals

we experiment on. I have worked

on a few preclinical reports in my time. 

The rhesus monkeys become

so desperate that they attempt suicide,

over and over again. I am legally obligated

to spare you the particulars.

How could things be any different?

Here many choice molecules have been born.

Here. This pill will dissolve like sugar.

Your last five months will be good ones.

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