I've taken down the Four Mile Island website, which told the story of building my solar home. It just seemed to me to be out of date, and I don't want to redo it or maintain it now. I would write a very different website if I ever decide to redo it, and it would not go easy on the human species. At the time I created Four Mile Island (the home pictured on this page) in 1982, there was still hope that humans could live on this planet in a sustainable way. That hope is now hanging by a thread, if not in freefall. If the nuclear bombs don't get us, then climate change will.

I'm 68 years old now, and I wish all the younger people well. Human beings don't seem to be able to govern ourselves in a reasonable way. If younger people can end war and entirely change the political-economic systems practically overnight then there is still hope. If we end war, the nuclear weapons will be dismantled, and we already have the technologies to switch to 100% renewable energy quickly, and perhaps prevent the worst of climate change.

To younger people, if you and your children are to survive, you will have to do a lot better than my generation of activists did. We poured our lives and our hearts into accomplishing the above, but things just keep getting worse. I hope we have at least set the stage for you to accomplish what must be quickly done.

Thanks,
Bob English
bobengl@gmail.com