Common Sense from The Duke
The Times today carries an article about engineers from the Duke of Edinburgh.
What common sense!
I like this bit.
Yet engineering remains the driving force behind all technological advances, and plays an immensely important part in the improvement in social conditions. Furthermore, it is probably the greatest wealth creator in our whole society.
But how he ends the article is something that all politicians should note.
As the ever-growing human population consumes more and more of the Earth’s natural resources, it is going to take all the ingenuity of inventors, engineers and designers to maintain the rate of improvements in developed societies and to bring better standards of living to more and more people in the less prosperous countries of the world. If this is to be achieved in the 21st century, the challenge will be to make sure that bright young people, whatever their background, who aspire to do something creative and fulfilling with their lives, can achieve their ambition through engineering.
It will be engineers, that get us out the mess we are in.
Not politicians! How much hot air will they be blowing in Copenhagen?
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