Feeling extremely burned out on my academic work, which lately has been almost 100% focused on satellite pollution. So I spent all weekend doing farm work instead, which was mostly very pleasant.
Turns out pulling weeds and shoveling literal shit is WAY fucking better than writing useless-but-important FCC comments about incredibly fucking dangerous shit (metaphorical shit) techbros want to launch into orbit.
And then we had a little farm accident. Everything is fine, but with a moment of hesitation or a misstep, that could have turned out EXTREMELY bad.
(A nice reminder that farming is actually quite dangerous. And farming is incredibly important, obviously.)
Everything can change in a moment. So what to spend my time on?
I am tired of writing articles about satellite pollution. I am tired of doing research on satellite pollution. I am tired of talking to journalists about satellite pollution. I am tired of talking to politicians about satellite pollution.
But I am real fucking tired of seeing satellites all over the sky every night, and these are the tools I have to fight it.
So, I'll be on the CBC morning radio shows in Regina and Saskatoon tomorrow, talking about, you guessed it...
This ramble is really to commiserate with everyone who's tired of fighting whatever your fight is. Because, holy shit, there's so much awful stuff to fight right now.
Keep fighting.
Thank you.
@sundogplanets The bad guys rely on this asymmetry. They have effectively unlimited time and money to throw at this (like finding sympathetic astromomers) and you don't. And ninety-nine concerned people out of a hundred will throw it in the too hard basket.
But it seems to me that you are that hundreth person, and you are not only qualified but have the guts to fight this battle. And I reckon you'll win it too.
Why? Becasue a very old friend who I hadn't seen for twenty years came to visit the other day. And she couldn't stop talking about this amazing lecture she went to in a tiny hall on Stewart Island. And she's now back in the UK spreading your story.
So look after yourself, and your goats. You can only do what you can do, but never doubt that what you you do is working.
P.S. I rekon your new goats will live longer than the bad guy's insane ideas.
Prof. Sam Lawler
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