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Forget the Planet, Retrofit the Earth

Looking at images of nearly all Iowa underwater got me thinking about the difference in politics between fixing the here-and-now and fantasizing about the future.

One suspected our public officials were drifting into the clouds when many, especially of a certain environmentalist stripe, started referring to the Earth as "the planet." Of late, one might ask: Which planet are they living on? The Earth is about the here-and-now. The Planet is about the out-there.