I work as an engineering consultant.
When engineers are stuck on a problem, I am sometimes called in to help.

90% of the time that a group of engineers are stuck on a technical problem and I am called in, this is what happens:
1) I listen to their problem description.
2) I explain what is causing their problem.
3) I explain my plan.
4) We start working on my plan.
5) Someone says, “Well if we can do that, then we could do X.”
6) Some other constraints are then explained to me that were not formerly thought worth disclosing.
7) The employee suggestion is the solution accepted.
I leave the company.
9) I send an invoice for my work.
10) I realize that my only value added was to get them to stop looking at the problem the same way.

I recycled all my garbage in 1982 when there was no public recycling.
I built a super insulated solar home in 1982.
I raised my own food in my 10,000 sq ft garden 1982 - 1999.

But when Clinton signed the assault weapons ban in 1994, I stopped giving money to the DNC. I was forced to re examine my fear of nukes.
I realized that I had been thinking with a perceived risk of nuke plants and not a calculated risk.

Then I realized that global warming was a tax and regulate scam, spitting in the face of scientific method.