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In the same week that George Hay
died, we learned later, Gerry Carter also died. Gerry hosted
ASTRA-London meetings at the offices of his company
Environmental Consortium. The company was involved in
environmental engineering on a very big scale, with ideas
including a trans-Italian canal to ease pollution problems
in the Mediterranean, an underground city built into a hill
called the 'Man-Mountain', and magnesium alloy floating and
flying cities big enough to house thousands of people.
Before the escalation of the conflict in Vietnam, he had
been involved with a US consortium (who sponsored my space
probe research later) in a project to build the Pilkington
Sea City (originally designed for the North Sea) off
south-east Asia.
As I said above, Gerry's support
of the London branch was a mixed blessing - some members of
the branch were strongly opposed to the way ASTRA was run
and was going, and Gerry lent his support to them. His visit
to Scotland in the mid-70's was not a success: it encouraged
dissident members here, costing us a number of members in
the short and medium term, and one result was that there
were no new book projects for nearly twenty years. ASTRA had
no further contact with Gerry after the London branch broke
away from the society, and the resultant breach with Andy
Nimmo and others wasn't remedied until the Space Settlers
Society reunited with ASTRA in 1992.
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