To address the potential threat of individuals, governments, or corporations manipulating the weather as a weapon of mass destruction to drive people away from mineral-rich land, as suspected in the case of Hurricane Helene, we need to remove the financial incentive that ostensibly motivates these actions, which is profit. To accomplish this, Congress should craft legislation that directs the profits generated from the extraction of all minerals within the continental US, after costs, to be distributed to natural-born citizens. This is how capitalism is supposed to work. Recognizing that “the minerals belong to the people” and not to the corporations, with the appropriate legislation directing the profits of our minerals directly to our natural born citizens, ensures that our children will never be paupers in the richest country in the world, which has the most oil and the largest gas supplies. How can any one of our citizens be poor with such national wealth? This approach makes sense when you consider that the land, that which grows on it and that which lies beneath it, belongs to the people, not to the corporations. The minerals (such as oil, natural gas, cobalt, uranium, lithium, etc.) and the wealth they produce are the property of the natural-born citizens of the US. Companies should be limited to their costs and a 17% return on investment (ROI). What’s left should be distributed to natural-born citizens of the US. This would prevent politicians from engaging in corrupt practices such as selling our uranium to Russia for personal gain, or our lithium to China for political gain and profit. It would enable the citizens to prosper, curb the corrupt practices of our politicians, and discourage the use of weapons of mass destruction in order to gain control of the nation’s natural resources.
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