The most influence each of us has on the society we live in is what we buy — or, more importantly, what we refuse to buy. These two books are about exactly that: one about a purchase millions are making with their eyes on the stars, and one about the ledger we forgot to question.
Thinking About Starlink? Read This Before You Buy.
Falling Back to Earth: Changing the Perspective — an open letter to Elon Musk, offered here as a free EPUB.
Starlink is a remarkable product, and the dish on your roof is only the part you can see. What you’re actually buying into is a constellation — thousands of satellites that will burn up on reentry, one day, and leave their aluminum oxide in the upper atmosphere. That cost isn’t on the monthly bill. Everybody pays it, whether they subscribed or not.
The science is no longer hypothetical:
- October 2023, NOAA (PNAS): around 10% of stratospheric aerosol particles already contain reentry metals.
- June 2024, USC (GRL): at full mega-constellation deployment, reentries could add roughly 360 metric tons of aluminum oxide per year — +646% over natural background.
- February 2026, Leibniz Institute: first direct measurement of a Falcon 9 upper-stage reentry plume in the mesosphere.
Responsible consumerism starts with knowing what a purchase really includes. Whether you’re considering Starlink, already using it, or investing in the company, this book is your briefing — free, because the argument matters more than the transaction.
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120 pages. ISBN 979-8-9967716-0-8 (paperback), 979-8-9967716-1-5 (ebook). Print edition available through bookstores.
Who Pays the Sun: Freedom and the Bill
This site exists because what we buy — and what we refuse to buy — is how ordinary people shape the future. Who Pays the Sun asks where that idea comes from, and what our economy forgot.
The ledger is a human instrument. It measures price, debt, and exchange — and it does that job well. The trouble begins when we apply it to things it was never built to hold: sunlight, air, a jay’s cache of acorns, the town that raised you. Fourteen chapters on the commons we’d fight to keep, the things that aren’t for sale, and the lie that you’re lazy. And on the oldest written word for freedom, ama-gi: return to the mother, the debt canceled.
The sun doesn’t bill us. The question is what kind of economy forgets that.
Pay what you wish — $11.11 suggested. Every dollar over coffee says “help me write more.”
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Both books: Dancing Piper Publishing. Print editions via Lightning Source; the illustrated EPUB of Falling Back to Earth is offered for free digital sharing.