Hi Gordon, EnviroNetr's,

A fun and true piece you wrote. Well at least it rang true to me.

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<Of course, we know the activists will remain busy. Even if climate
change loses its currency they have not yet achieved their goal of
ridding the biosphere of toxic substances. I can hardly wait to see what
they come up with. Maybe they will try to convince governments to phase
out the use of copper>

As King Solomon wrote, or is reputed to have written, "stuff" continues and 
the next generation forgets and then repeats the errors or glory and soon 
forgets all over again.

The best we as engineering people can do is to understand and then to attack 
and solve the current problem if it is real not imaginary. And then strive to 
communicate, communicate, educate, communicate to keep the message alive 
for the spell we call our lives.

Cheers, Gordon: You to Brian, Joe

YiEngr, MA/NY DDave
Yours in Engineering, Dave