Bill FerreeBill Ferree lives at the edge of the woods in Connecticut. It's a pretty place, but gardening is an ongoing contest with deer and chipmunks. Civilized though, Starbucks and good beer within walking distance. A previous life included a couple of decads in Florida and a career flying people in big airplanes. Two years telling stories and driving a tourist trolley in Savannah preceded the recent return to cold country. Bill grew up with Amish as neighbors and sometimes the smell of cow manure-Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He left for an engineering degree at Penn State and then the Navy, getting through that Vietnam period with no injury a measure of success and good luck, in his opinion. "Grandchildren are the ones we owe," says Bill. "Nature's way is for us to clean up their messes, not the other way around. It shouldn't be our mess in their air." The question: Why do we keep burning? Answer: Follow the money. What a fantastic trail to follow; tragic, familiar, and so funny-human gullibility, and greed. Money and genes make fools of us all, and the water is rising. Read More Read Less