After the 2040s, after Peak Earth, after the Gold Rush, this will be the Neil Young song that all the Silicon Valley billionaires will choose to sing..... after the loading has begun.
You and I and the rest of the 99% won't be there : but our children will be : crying .
For this is the Credo of the denier classes : Earths are like condoms : "find 'em, frack 'em and forget 'em" - de-invest and move on upwards and outwards.....
On Oct 16th 1940, Gotham's concrete jungle rescued the NATURAL penicillin stone its (British) builders had rejected and gave the world's first antibiotic shot. Alexander Fleming's ARTIFICIAL penicillin (ironically from leafy green Oxford !) won a Nobel but failed morally and technically. Instead Manhattan Natural radiated hope to a world tired, huddled and wretched. On its 75th, let's remind terrorist Ramzi Yousef about a Manhattan project that saved far more lives than the A-Bomb ever killed.
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