On Earth Day 2007, Charles Petzold blogged about his recollection of a speech by Ayn Rand in the 70’s. He ponders if Ayn might have altered her thinking if she were alive today (although I think he had his tongue in his cheek). He quotes Ayn as stating that “pollution was the sign of a healthy economy,” and that (with a thick Russian accent) “Vee vill build smokestacks to zee moon!” Ayn Rand died in 1982, so we have no way of knowing what impact new facts and science might have made on her beliefs,...