Yehya Al-Hafidh

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  • The Birth of Tragedy
  • Glut Report
  • Protect and Survive
  • Metered Air
  • Signature Catalog
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Metered Air


My proposition for the future of our neoliberalist government is the ultimate privatisation and commodification of clean air – where private corporations would buy large pockets (silos) of air and government tax would be applied to every single breath. People would be obligated to wear respiratory air purifying masks as a result of the ever increasing, dangerous, air pollution levels. The government pollutes our air uncontrollably and their solution is to sell clean air back to us as if it was not once a right but now a luxury. Meters on each individual mask would log the user’s daily intake and charge them a monthly premium.