Tom Goldsmith: 'Folks who do not live in Utah appear baffled by the state’s failure of nerve. Be it water conservation, radioactive waste, pollution of its skies and rivers, there’s a drought of environmental will and political ethics.'
Dropping lake levels on the Great Salt Lake, along the north shore of Antelope Island, continue to expose more reef-like structures called microbialites on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023.Have you ever tried explaining Utah to people who live outside the state? Not the effortless narrative we jump into automatically like rhapsodizing about the desert’s grandeur and the powder up the canyons. That’s easy.
People outside of Utah press for insights into how a theocracy really functions. If 90% of the legislature belong to the same conservative faith, does half the state who are not part of the dominant culture feel at all represented? But then my new friends get down to the core of their existential puzzlement.
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