Counts can abuse America’s land, water, and air for their own self gain. They leave expensive damage behind, and threaten the health of the environment that sustains all of our American lives.
And this violates
fundamental
American values.
Our natural resources are essential to life in America the beautiful. Americans know we must treat our land, water, and air with respect. It’s how we keep America healthy and full of life.
Extreme money can turn any regular problem in America into an extreme threat. Elite, entitled Counts endanger America by wielding extreme E8, E9, E10, E11 Money Counts to:
- Abuse America’s land, water, air. Counts can use extreme money to decide for all Americans how we treat America’s land, water, and air. They don’t just claim the power to use America’s natural resources, but also to abuse and deplete them for any whim or want.
- Put the costs on Americans. When Counts abuse America’s natural resources, Americans pay the costs. Counts can focus on self gain. Americans have to clean up toxins and waste in our land, water, and air. Then we pay again in our insurance bills and our utility bills.
- Take advantage of America’s abundance. America’s natural resources are so vast that Counts can abuse and deplete a massive amount before the damage is clear. Counts can know that Americans may not recognize the extent of the real damage until it’s too late.
- Act recklessly. Counts can seek self gain, careless of the resource costs and potential damage. They pursue AI, “crypto” money, artificial life. They put industrial plants across America, mining data for profitable pieces of information and drawing ever more water and energy.
- Deny and hide abuse. Counts likely understand the true damage they cause, whether to the water cycle or the carbon cycle. But they can use extreme money to deny and hide their abuses. Counts can afford to warp reality.
- Leave Americans to live with health consequences. Counts have already withdrawn from American neighborhoods. When they abuse our land, water, and air, they don’t live with the results. Counts can always protect their own health. Counts can afford to retreat to remote compounds or flee to foreign countries.
On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the Big Woods Declaration (BWD) renews the call for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, free from the corruption of extreme money.
The BWD is a First Amendment petition to the American people and our government. It is not limited to any political party or group.
The BWD is a total of 60 pages: the Core Declaration (4 pages), the 13 Notes, the 27 Dangers to America, and the 16 Solutions for America.
The BWD may be shared and reused under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. View a copy of this license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
The BWD was created without the use of any AI, opinion polling, or focus groups. The BWD draws on many core American ideas as well as the work of Thorstein Veblen, America’s visionary from the Big Woods of Minnesota.
All photos in the BWD were taken in the Big Woods. The BWD was framed by Erik Christopher Sahlin with Alyssa Beth Wulf.
