Seattle Industry magazine is distributed to 12,000 manufacturing and industrial business leaders and elected officials throughout Washington. That is, everyone who does or should care about industry in our state.

What ’s Up
4 In This Issue
Huge oil reserves in Canada, drowning polar bears in Alaska, the UN Report on Global Warming, and the advisory vote on the Alaskan Way Viaduct. Momma said there might be days like this, but Aye Carumba!

6 Viaduct Debacle
Let’s see if they can say it with a straight face: We’re from City Hall and we want to know your opinion about the viaduct.

8 The Great Viaduct Dumb-Down
The Articles of Faith that led to the viaduct impasse, and other reasons why the Founders tried to separate Church and State.

SEATTLE REPORTS
34 Seattle
Seattle industrial planners look at Chicago, San Francisco, and other cities
38 Ballard
Ballard Owes Prince Charles a Toast or Two
39 Georgetown
Georgetown Braces for I-5 Closure
40 South Park
South Park Business Celebrates 100th Anniversary

If this issue of Seattle Industry had a carbon footprint, it would probably be big enough to smash straight through whatever ice will be left in the Arctic Ocean by the time you get around to reading it.

Enormous oil reserves in Alberta. Enormous oil reserves in Alaska. Enormous battles brewing over what to do about the thinning ice beneath Alaska’s polar bears.

Environmentalists and federal officials acting like complete nincompoops. It was all kind of fun and then along comes the new United Nations Report that there is a 90 percent chance Al Gore is right (boy, would that hurt). The earth is warming, scientists are 90 percent sure it is caused by human use of carbon-based fuels, and nobody knows if we can really do anything to cool things down or stop the trend, but just wait for the pressure to pull our collective rear ends over to the curb, stop, get out, and start the long, slow walk toward a kinder, gentler, slower, darker, grimmer future that will not be perked by up Jet Skis, snowmobiles, hydroplane races, the Blue Angels, NASCAR, joyrides, favorite car tunes, or vacations on Maui unless you sail or swim there. And, if all that isn’t depressing enough, you can always turn to the Alaskan Way Viaduct.

We wish we could say we planned this lineup of stories to coincide with the public release of the UN Report. We didn’t. But now that they are all here, we will take credit for spotting the three threads that tie this issue together.

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