As they ascend, planting, singing hymns and praying, each 1,000 feet will provide a climate typical of the one that prevails 300 miles north. Therefore, they will be able to grow almost anything they fancy. Chances are they will all plant apples. The Democrats will fuss and reproach everybody about all of the above. But they will calm down as soon as they realize they are in the very midst of a government work program costing trillions of dollars, employing hundreds of thousands of idle citizens, and surpassing in grandeur all the works of man thus far.
Democrats like to think big.
And as soon as they progate the latter opinion, the Chinese will feel obliged to join the race to build the biggest garbage mountain first. They too are short on garbage. When they and the Russians are as broke as the United States, perhaps peace will descend. The base of the mountains would be made of densely compacted dry garbage. Terraces would be formed to provide arable fields, and these would be covered with salvaged topsoil from the Mississippi and other big rivers.