Quick, move to Denver
Back in the day (last century) when it became fashionable to promote some form of agenda in Washington, a group of experts would trot out some data and present it at a congressional hearing. The thrust was ... "by the year 2000 ...." The thinking was, in the 1980s, that "the year 2000" was far enough in the future that speculation on life would be connected to "an estimated 5 million Americans will suffer from ...." Once a week, "by the year 2000, we'll have (a.) no trees (b.) no fresh water or (c.) lots more people with an illness, poverty or too many kids." Sadly for these experts, they all died without having to prove anything and, worse, 2000 came and went. Now what's the "landmark" date for "by the year .... 2010?" Been there, done that. Usually these milestone dates that Congress gets to ponder are in mathematical integers or 10, 15 or 25. Now, we just skip over it and go straight to 2100. Wow, really