Re: On putting old wind in new bags--Why the Odyssey

Leon Kaplan (kaplan@par.univie.ac.at)
Fri, 24 Oct 1997 18:53:51 +0100 (MET DST)

>
Hi!

[...]
> Continental drift, yes of course. I live in the mountains. A few years
> ago I
> lived in a town 3500 feet above sea level that used to be part of a
> volcanic
> island arc like Hawaii. But these phenomena were not products of human
> agency. Human beings are not even candidates for the possible cause of
> the Alpine orogeny, for instance. But if the climate is warming, we
> are likely to bear some responsibility. And if that is true, then we
> might be able to reverse the trends. I know that's a lot of "ifs" for
> an engineer.

Right!

> Maybe that is why technicians should stay out of
> politics. Too much responsibilty.

No its the other way round: maybe only unresponsible people get into politics
;-)

cu,
Aaron.