When I was a boy I remember people complaining about the weather. In the summer it was hot and people used to say, “It’s a hot one today,” or “Is it hot enough for you?”
Is there a reason people discuss the weather, or why they complain about the weather? What does this accomplish? Does it take a special type of thinker to be so concerned with the weather, or does everybody get involved in the commentary? I flew to Boston to meet with Harvard professor Julius Q. Endicott, PhD, a psychometeorologist, to talk about the weather.
Dr. Endicott’s office was, to my surprise, very unassuming. As imagined, however, there were ivy-covered towers adjoining the group of 150-year-old offices across from campus where Dr. Endicott was quartered. I found my way between two well-worn brick buildings and entered through a wrought iron gate into a courtyard. If I didn’t know any better, I could have sworn I had entered 1858. Dr. Endicott’s office was on the second floor overlooking the courtyard. Read the rest of this entry »
Then I started reading. And I read more and more. I read all kinds of books on the environment, oil companies, logging companies and chemical companies. I found out that these big companies not only destroy the environment, but they also wage tremendous public relations campaigns aimed at justifying their actions and defaming anyone who doesn’t like the environmental destruction that’s left in the wake. They spend millions of dollars a year trying to make destruction look like patriotic acts of God. “WE’RE SAVING LIVES by destroying things that people need in order to live.”