Next time you hear someone say, “I want my job back!” think of this picture. These are firemen on the TITANIC. Every day they shoveled 600 tons of coal into furnaces.  That was a century ago. Today, coal is a dying industry. Close behind are oil and hydroelectric. That’s because all are a product of the sun and solar panels are going up across the country INCLUDING my state, Alaska! What many people do not know is that the bulk of electric power is for home heating and cooling and with solar power that power can come from your roof on a three-foot wire. The key to using history as a guide is to see the problems coming down the highway.  The two BIG problems which are going to generate giant industries over the next century are water and garbage. You cannot get water ANYWHERE and garbage is killing the oceans and causing global weather changes. If we don’t’ lean to recycle both, we will go the way of the dodo.  Except in our case, we will have killed ourselves.  History is the not the story of the past; it is the study of the future. Learn from it or keep repeating the errors of the past. [See my books at https://authormasterminds.com/master-of-the-impossible-crime.]