Norwick's Head Poobah

I was interviewing the Head Poobah of our Norwick Public Utility CoOperative and asked him Where did the 22 percent goal come from for acquiring renewable energy? As compared to 78 percent from nonrenewable and guaranteed increasingly costly electricity sources like burned-out oil and gas and coal, with their concomitant stinky smokestacks. "As I recall when we needed a number for our report on future numbers, that was a number we had nearly achieved so we found this number a realistic one to report now about our future goal, now basically attained." Is that how you derive all your health and safety goals for our future health and safety? "Without having thought about it, and retaining the right to change my Head Poobah mind, I guess that would be about right 22 percent of the time." I was hoping for 100 percent, or as close to it as your mind might derive through deeper and wider contemplation, not to mention higher. "As concerns my health and safety and truth-telling goals, although I cannot say 100 percent for sure, I believe I am currently at about 78 percent nonrenewable responses about suboptimizing choices for future health and safety." Do you recall if anyone asked what a 100 percent green energy goal might look like in Norwick? "No, I'm sure I would remember something so unimaginable." And why is a 100 percent ecological healthy and economic safety goal so unimaginable to our Head Poobah? "That would really require cooperative ownership of using only greener renewable energy and incorporating that focal point over all our cooperative v BusinessAsUsual competitive goal setting and WinLose budgeting and strategic planning for achieving super-saturating WinWin health and safety goals for the entire Norwick CoOperative Utility." But, isn't that what one would cooperatively expect if one were handsomely paid to become Head Poobah of something called Norwick CoOperative Efficacy, Incorporated? "No, no. I am at least 78 percent certain you have that nonrenewably wrong, we are the Norwick Public Utility Corporation." Oh, I see. How silly of me, confusing efficacy with utility and public ownership with cooperative ummmm... ownership. "Not a problem. When you've been in the public and personal sector businesses as long as I have, you don't realistically expect to hit 100 percent on health and safety and truth-remembering." That's extremely disconcerting. "Good news for you. Disaster sells more papers." Yes, but paper still comes from trees cooperating with clean air and water and just-right solar rays to avoid future climates of public, and personal, nonutilitarian pathologies at least 78 percent of local Head Poobah times and spaces and incorporating places. OK, I didn't actually say that last part out loud, but I was most self-righteously thinking it.