Right Place, Wrong Time
“The restaurant was nice enough—elegant and expensive, just the way the Hamiltons liked it—and the wine list was large enough for Ross Hamilton to pontificate on its strengths and weaknesses. He also pontificated on the inferior quality of the golf clubs he’d had to rent that day, the absence of morality in the films Hollywood was currently churning out and the extremism of environmentalists who panicked about the melting of the polar ice caps.
Ethan suspected Ross had raised that final subject ...solely to bait him. The old man knew Ethan’s work for the Gage Foundation involved funding projects designed to protect and improve the environment. He was saying provocative things to test Ethan. Ethan didn’t feel like being tested.
He drank his wine, ate his grilled conch and told Ross Hamilton that global warming was a significant problem, and that when—not if, but when—the polar ice caps started melting, the planet would be drastically altered. Ross pointed out that by the time the problem became significant, he would be dead, so it was hard for him to care about the threat.MoreLess
Ethan suspected Ross had raised that final subject ...solely to bait him. The old man knew Ethan’s work for the Gage Foundation involved funding projects designed to protect and improve the environment. He was saying provocative things to test Ethan. Ethan didn’t feel like being tested.
He drank his wine, ate his grilled conch and told Ross Hamilton that global warming was a significant problem, and that when—not if, but when—the polar ice caps started melting, the planet would be drastically altered. Ross pointed out that by the time the problem became significant, he would be dead, so it was hard for him to care about the threat.MoreLess
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