By Eddie Pipkin

Image by Carlos Lincoln from Pixabay

I was reading last week about the inventor, Thomas Midgley, Jr.  His name was unfamiliar to me, but his inventions.  He was responsible for two of the developments that made the Twentieth Century as we lived it possible: the CFCs that made air conditioning affordable and the leaded gasoline formulation that, likewise, made the automobile accessible and useful for all.  Of course, each of those two technological advancements led to notorious planetary-wide environmental disasters.  It’s hard to look into the future and see the way a seemingly sound