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22. It's due to be completed next year. Natural gas is hardly an ideal for

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how we want to supply energy in future, but it's almost done, an imperfect asset we can put to work as we turn to meeting many, many, MANY other, vital energy issues. The balance of costs and benefits strongly favors using it to help maintain life-sustaining energy for real people while we take dirty (dirtier in this case) energy away. None of this is about profits for those building it.

Absolutely everything depends on adequate energy for existence, and demand is increasing due to climate emergencies and population growth -- in spite of use becoming more efficient. Society must maintain adequate energy supplies WHILE we transition to sustainable sources and away from fossil fuels.

Where supplies are not adequate, there will be no transition. Society won't allow -- except where people are too poor and few to save themselves and their communities, of course.

We're already seeing warning signs around the nation of system failures for various reasons. There is little mention of the relatively few human deaths so far, or of already dying communities, but they're actually giant, blazing danger signals.

We have to be smarter than we have been about a lot of things to bring ourselves through this. Our safety margins for foolish mistakes are gone. And we really need to listen to and empower good leaders; those prone to well meaning but fruitless thinking are as problematic as those prone to cupidity and factional knuckledragging now that we must meet many emergencies for real.

So finish the almost-finished pipeline that's already torn through 300 miles of mostly wilderness forest and farmland because it's almost finished and can be used. Insist it be done right. Monitor properly, which we have technology to do far better than ever before. Dismantle it, along with other pipelines, as we do away with natural gas, or probably sooner when demand for natural gas drops below economic viability, as it will. Replant the forests. Farming will always have continued where it was.