The good news is that Bill Nye (The Science Guy) hosted Senator Chuck
Schumer of NY the other day to talk about the need to move aggressively to
address the climate crisis, which Schumer wholeheartedly agreed with.

At one point during the interview Nye implied how we finally need in the
USA to convert to metric by making a slightly snide remark about how
archaic Fahrenheit was, which gave me the strong impression he favors
metrication. (He may have even been more explicit in other appearances he
has made on TV over the years, which would not surprise me.)

So, if both Senate races in Georgia go to the Democrats, Schumer becomes
Majority Leader. At that point we can contact Nye to see if he can prevail
on Schumer to get legislation passed to at least allow metric only labels
on products and maybe pass other measures to start easing the USA into
metric.

Ezra


On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 11:06 AM Robert Price <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sad to say, but I agree.  Obama wasn't too warm to metric and I don't see
> why his former vice president will be any different.
>
>
> On Thursday, November 19, 2020, 9:30:56 PM CST, Brian White <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Not a chance anything will change.  Sad to say but true.
>
> On Nov 19, 2020, at 19:04, J McClellan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 
>
> So is anyone here at all even a bit more hopeful that there might be some
> forward metric movement in the US with a new (purportedly more progressive)
> administration?
> I've already got a letter ready to send out on the 26th of January :P
> Hope everybody here does the same!!
>
>
> GO METRIC, AMERICA!
> *Because the kings' foot STINKS.*
>
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