There's nothing wrong with "average hard working citizens". They
just don't understand the problem or its implications. They are not against
doing something about global warming because they have analyzed the problem
and don't consider it an important issue; they're against it because some
lobbyist told a friend of their neighbor that it was a scam and they should
be against it.
To put it in a structural engineering perspective, many people who
have to pay for the construction think that engineers are "way too
conservative" until their own roof falls in on their heads.
I had a client once; his name was Walt Healy. He was a motorcycle
geek. A prime example of a hard working citizen, he owned a motorcycle shop
on 10th street in Calgary for sixty (60) years! He had a nick in one ear.
He asked me if I knew how he got that nick; I said I didn't; so he told me.
He was sleeping in a hotel bed when the roof collapsed and one roof beam
fell into his room, all the way to the floor, making a doughnut out of his
bed and putting a nick in his ear. We were renovating his building and he
told me to make sure that the structure was sound and he didn't care how
much it cost. When Walt passed away the Calgary Herald did a cartoon of him
with his motorcycle at the Gates of Heaven giving St. Peter a ride in a side
car. I thought is was a nice tribute.
Regards,
H. Daryl Richardson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Polhemus" <bill@polhemus.cc>
To: <seaint@seaint.org>
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: Update: Dallas Cowboys roof Collapse
> Daryl Richardson wrote:
>> 'Towering Inferno' pitted technical types against evil corporate owner
>>
>> Chris,
>>
>> You don't have to go to the movies. The "Global Warming"
>> situation is doing that right now in real life!!!!
> If you want to consider "average hard-working citizens" ==> "evil
> corporate types."
>
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