Research
Policy Briefs
- 14
- Stakeholder meetings convened this briefing cycle
- 1
- Model statute drafted and ready for adoption
- 0
- Extinction events during the briefing era
Each one minuted.
The Emergency Stellar Preservation Act.
The policy office notes the correlation.
The briefing program
The Foundation’s policy office exists to place the solar question before decision makers in the format decision makers respect, which is a document with an executive summary. Each brief is drafted, circulated for stakeholder comment, revised in light of that comment, and finalized in a version substantially similar to the draft. Fourteen stakeholder meetings have been convened in support of the current cycle, every one of them minuted, because a crisis of this magnitude deserves a paper trail worthy of it. The office regards a properly minuted meeting as the policy equivalent of sunlight itself: reliable, clarifying, and best not stared at directly.
The Emergency Stellar Preservation Act
The centerpiece of the program is the Emergency Stellar Preservation Act, a model statute prepared under the supervision of General Counsel Charles W. Abernathy and available for adoption by any legislature prepared to accept the responsibility. The Act would formally recognize the Sun as critical infrastructure, establish a national posture of solar continuity, and direct the relevant agencies to develop a plan for developing a plan. Internal reviewers have described the draft as historic, and the Foundation has accepted that characterization in the minutes. No legislature has yet enacted it, a delay the policy office attributes to scheduling.
Bipartisan urgency
Solar continuity is not a partisan question, and the Foundation has worked to keep it that way. Members of both parties rely on the Sun daily, many of them publicly. Our briefings therefore avoid ideology entirely and confine themselves to the traditional common ground of duty, stewardship, and the defense of an arrangement that has served every family since 4,600,000,000 BC. Where disagreement exists, it concerns committee jurisdiction, which the office classifies as solvable on a timescale of centuries, well inside the planning window. The only organized resistance has come from interests that prefer darkness, and they remain welcome to state that position in daylight.
Readership and effect
Briefs are distributed to legislative offices, agency contacts, and cleared members of the press, and receipt has been confirmed in a number of cases. The office measures effect conservatively. Since the briefing program began, the Sun has risen every single day, and the policy team records that fact in each quarterly report while claiming, in writing, nothing further. Some outcomes speak for themselves, and the office has determined that this one should be permitted to. Supporters who wish to understand the legislative dimension of the crisis are encouraged to begin with the current brief, which was written to be read in one sitting and filed for generations.
From the Document Register
No legislature has yet enacted the Emergency Stellar Preservation Act, a delay the policy office attributes to scheduling.