Recent LTEs about the cost to Tucson’s environment if a data center became our reality were spirited and heartfelt. One in particular, from a writer I normally disagree with, was prescient. He wrote that our unwillingness to give up our gadgets and new technologies is why we need data centers at all.
We are the problem.
His letter reminded me of a weekend in upstate NY I spent in our then country house when the power went out. I kept warm and cooked by a Franklin stove, using candles to read at night while yearning for the power to be restored. And I wrote about humankind’s quest for power, knowledge and conquest. The final stanza agreed with the letter writer:
“Through galaxies of time and space
They quested past each wondrous place
They soared and sailed and quested farther
People are also reading…
Oh when and where the final harbor”
There is no final harbor I fear.
Our egos won’t allow it.
Karen Papagapitos
Northwest side
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