Preach! What a tragic story. Your book sounds like a terrific way to seed a message of righting wrongs. I agree, capitalism has much to answer for, especially the concept of “externalities,” costs to the environment and to people that don’t factor into the enterprise’s bottom line. Accounting just magically takes them off the books. Businesses hate regulation because it affects profits. But in this system it’s what we have to include *all* costs in a scheme, not pick and choose. My stories (now disaggregated from a sprawling novel that doesn’t yet work) center around methane fracking in northeastern Pennsylvania-- one of many rural areas in our country that’s being devastated by industrial-scale energy “development.” It occurs to me that these stories are everywhere for the picking. 😢
Preach! What a tragic story. Your book sounds like a terrific way to seed a message of righting wrongs. I agree, capitalism has much to answer for, especially the concept of “externalities,” costs to the environment and to people that don’t factor into the enterprise’s bottom line. Accounting just magically takes them off the books. Businesses hate regulation because it affects profits. But in this system it’s what we have to include *all* costs in a scheme, not pick and choose. My stories (now disaggregated from a sprawling novel that doesn’t yet work) center around methane fracking in northeastern Pennsylvania-- one of many rural areas in our country that’s being devastated by industrial-scale energy “development.” It occurs to me that these stories are everywhere for the picking. 😢