THE WEEK
Trump officially opens formerly protected Utah national monuments for businessThe Interior Department released final plans Thursday for two national monuments in Utah that President Trump moved to radically shrink two years ago. Under the final plans, about 2 million acres that were once part of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments would be open to mineral extraction and ranching. Public lands advocates, Native American groups, and conservationists whose lawsuits to prevent the downsizing of the national monuments are still being litigated in court, called foul.
TOMORROWLAND (February 7)
Who will own all the garbage
when that’s all that’s left of the world?
The swirl of plastics and carcasses
where blue-green oceans once whirled?
The deserted sun-blasted inland
now remarkably close to the coast?
The poisonous air and brown waters
which will be supporting at most
hearty one-cell extremophiles
who find such conditions divine
and with Donald still POTUS
will anyone notice
the Koch Brothers’ name on the sign?