Issue Introduction We are destroying the Great Salt Lake. We
downward trajectory, our learning about this
are turning this once mighty Great Lake into
“progress” will not be found on Instagram
a cesspool. If “progress” wins, the lake will
or from the “influencer community”. The
indeed die. The inland port, which promises
censorship by Facebook is systematically
to poison the food supply for millions of
silencing all dissenting voices and the inde-
migratory birds, moves forward.
pendent press. Greed marches on.
The proposed landfill on the inlet of where
Neiztche proclaimed in 1872 that “God is
the Salt Creek flows into the GSL, where
dead.” He was remarking on how humans
thousands of ducks and geese find sanctu-
are killing God with their “progress” and
ary, will become a place to bury radioactive
how the Church’s role in society and man’s
waste, soot and ash. There are plenty of
worship of his own creations, rather than
better places to store this ash, but greed is
God’s, was winning. When our “Great” Salt
winning.
Lake becomes a cesspool, will we mourn it’s
Greed is the driving force of “progress in
loss or will we just enjoy the Walmart that is
Utah”, and as local journalism continues its
built on top of it?
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PHOTO CREDIT: NELSON JI FROM UNSPLASH
By Richard Markosian
