I wonder if we will look back on these past few years and think how innocent we were, just before we as a species realized that we had permanently munged our environment.

Yeah, that thought had crossed my mind. Sigh. BTW, I'd pretty much decided to spend the day of Oct 31st in Salem alone, but wanted to specifically invite you to join me if you were able, since we rarely get to hang together. I assumed that you saw my general posting about it, but in case you haven't..