I agree. America simply needs to complete her metrication, not start
from scratch, which is the point I try to make in this Fact Sheet:
http://metricpioneer.com/fact-sheet
David Pearl MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917
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Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 18:08:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: c...@traditio.com
Reply-To: Martin Morrison <c...@traditio.com>
Subject: [USMA:53306] The U.S. Is NOT a Non-metric Country
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
In response to the statement that "traditionally, the three
countries listed as not using the metric system are the USA,
Liberia, and Burma (Myanmar)," I hasten to point out that the U.S.
is NOT a non-metric country. By law, the metric system is the
"preferred system of measurement" here.
True, everything in the U.S. is not yet metricated. But neither is
everything in Canada, Britain, and many other countries who are
considered metric. I have advocated strongly in the past that we
eschew this "we're not metric" approach and instead educate
Americans to the fact that we are about in the middle of being
converted. For many good and practical reasons, we need to push the
conversion forward.
Do Americans realize that pharmaceuticals, medicine, nutritional
information, alcohol, lighting, nuclear energy, electricity, and
many other areas are already partially or fully metric in this
country? That's the message I think we ought to push. The glass is
truly half full, not empty.
Martin Morrison
Columnist, "Metric Today"
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