poor georgie’s almanack:
About 40 years ago I was a PR consultant. One of my clients was a group that put together the first-ever conference of prominent American and Soviet nuclear scientists. It was a big deal.
The attendees were the geniuses behind the stockpiles of powerful bombs that could cause a mass extinction of our planet’s humans and all other semi-intelligent species.
Several reporters and I left an early morning session that had descended into the dreary depths of PhD-level physics. Our mission was to hit the strong coffee and sugary pastry in the crowded “press room” down the hall.
After a while a reporter who had stayed in the meeting dramatically opened the press room door. He was greeted by a loud shout from a journalist. “Did we miss anything? What’s the headline?”
His reply perked up the still reporters’ drooping eyelids. It was that the brainiacs had reached their first agreement. And it was unanimous.
Turned out the agreement, was about about wind-borne nuclear pollution from bomb blasts.
His headline was something like this: “Mother Nature does not need a visa to cross political boundaries.”
Subhead might have been, “Laws of Nature trump national laws.”
Of course, the Chernobyl disaster, global warming, and Ebola epidemics proved that.
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=400235
