The More Things Change...

The more things change, the more they stay the same.  Thinking of  efforts to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from doing its work of protecting air, water, land, and thence, the people, in order instead to protect industry's profits from natural resources, power plants, and factories, brings to mind the work of John Evelyn, in 1600.  He was doing his best to protect inhabitants of London from black smoke caused by coal burning.  "But," he wrote, "Parliament and the King were too occupied re-establishing a monarchical England to worry about such trivialities as the effects of smoke."

Gramma Windy