It's been time for 35 years. All those innocent birdies? Birds migrate North and South, not East and West, dumbasses. And if the leader gets reduced to feathers & flesh, the rest will take evasive actions, and thrive due to zero emissions, I'd reckon. As for the spoiled scenery? I'd see it, rather, as an engineering feat unrivaled in world history.
Squeeze on silver, huh? I was reading about this last week, and learned the junior mining stocks may also fare well with this.