The product of mass and velocity
The wind in your face on a bicycle,
lifting weights at the gym.
But what is momentum?
An example:
Oil tanker lost power at the Port of Corpus Christi,
crashing into the pier.
Running in reverse, it takes a supertanker five miles to stop.
It has huge momentum.
An analogy:
Economic momentum.
All those means of production,
all those workers.
A constantly expanding GDP
providing goods and services.
Too many goods we don't really need,
too few services we are desperate for.
We wait for the quarterly report.
We can't see the climate pier.
half of us deny that there even is a pier.
We want jobs and growth.
An ever expanding economy.
How long will it take to transform?
There is a plan to shift from oil in thirty years,
we have been reading it for twenty years,
but we stay the course.
At least we have a plan,
but no one knows
if that is really enough time
even if we started today
which we don't.
Drill baby, drill!
Hey! Get out of the road!
Run on the sidewalk!
Never enough pavement for my car.
Spend that infrastructure money on more roads,
build another pipeline,
not a windmill.
