Reply #16: I hear you on environmental engineering!

[BelgianMadCow]

wish that choice was around when I was studying - and may try and get into it nonetheless. Gamesa Eolica has been booming in wind energy. If you drive through Germany, there's wind farms everywhere. Apparently the new thing Gore is getting into is a venture capital firm backing small scale renewable energy sources - maybe we can get some money, you design it and I'll sell it ;-)

You are about the only one who has started to think about what we COULD and would do if we had our priorities straight - which was really the point of my OP. Not to say the other contributions weren't worthwile, but I was thinking further...
Just imagine what we could do with the brain capacity that goes into the continuation of consumerism...

On things that have social value: for example a mom or dad staying at home - a big service to society if you ask me, but increasingly less feasible - because it isn't rewarded!