4. Maintain corporations' personhood rights.
5. Prohibit nature's rights to exist-- other than as property or a resource for manufacturers.
6. Enact laws that prohibit local authorities from denying a permit to install telecom infrastructure based on environmental or public health impacts. Do not require industry to prove that their products are safe, including for pregnant women, infants or children. Allow advertising of harmful products. Dismiss scientific studies that demonstrate that exposure to radiation emitted by telecom devices and infrastructure harms health.
7. Permit manufacturers to deploy technologies without proof that they're safe from fire and collapse hazards. Allow PFAs-- forever chemicals-- which cause multiple health problems at very low levels in fracking, Teflon pans, waterproof clothing and dental floss.
8. Remain unaware that covering land with roads, parking lots, shopping malls, data centers and utility-scale solar PVs disrupts soil structure, water cycles and nature's cooling mechanism.
9. Subsidize manufacture and installation of solar photovoltaics (PVs), industrial wind, battery energy storage (BESS), electric vehicles (EVs) and nuclear power. Promote the idea that using these technologies will cool the Earth's temperatures and allow our society to continue indefinitely. Ignore that manufacturing and operating solar PVs, industrial wind turbines, battery energy storage systems and EVs involves fossil fuels, extractions, extreme water use and toxic waste. Ignore that like all electronics, these technologies do not biodegrade. Focus on their decreasing cost. Repeat their marketing terms: "green," "clean," "sustainable," "renewable," "zero-emitting" and "carbon-neutral."
10. Invest billions of dollars in A.I. to prevent rising temperatures, improve medicine and battery technologies, and fight wars. Ignore A.I.'s extractions, energy consumption, water consumption, "hallucinations," privacy issues and soul-lessness. Award the Nobel Prize in chemistry to scientists who use A.I. to create entirely new kinds of proteins for vaccines, nanomaterials and tiny sensors.
11. Dismiss the Jevons Paradox. It clarifies that "efficiency" increases energy consumption, water consumption, extractions and toxic waste-- since manufacturing one million units of an "efficient" product requires substantial energy, mining and water. Likewise, use "conservation" efforts to justify building new developments.
12. Do not reduce production or consumption of industrially-made goods. Do not ask or discuss how our lifestyles might impact ocean temperatures, hurricanes and wars. Do not ask, What's within our control to cool ocean temperatures, reduce hurricanes and wars?
13. Increase the number of humans who expect electricity, electronics and their own vehicle"by the billions.
14. Mine land, mine the deep-sea, smelt, refine, continue. Fine people who protest mining's impacts on pristine ecosystems. Sue them.
15. Forget the Hippocratic Oath, First, do no harm.
16. Genetically modify seeds. Take the DNA from "products" like breastmilk, lemon and ginseng, synthetically engineer them in a lab-- and market the products without labeling. Direct A.I.s to generate new DNA sequences and new proteins.
17. Do not teach children to grow vegetables, save seeds, preserve food, compost, heal wounds and diseases or resolve conflicts between their ears.
18. Give children smartphones before they have speech. Teach them to read on a screen.
19. Depend on food grown and medicine manufactured far, far from your bioregion.
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