People in Utah — along with environmental and public art proponents everywhere — are buzzing about the pending plans (and the lease approving them) of a Canadian oil company to drill in Utah’s Great Salt Lake, five miles north of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty.
Recent editorials in The New York Times and Salt Lake Tribune have urged Utah legislators to “protect the Jetty,” and reading these, it’s easy to relax in the faith that rational, forward, progressive thought and action will win the day. Then you glimpse at how others are reacting to this story, and it seems entirely sane to fight for a Constitutional amendment allowing the United States to de-accession a state.