Nano Surveillance (Dave Henson Series Book 1) by Mark Donovan Page B

saw an image of the crowd listening and occasionally applauding to the Secretary’s speech. The other nano-fly was working just as well.
    Ron sat in front of his computer screen verifying everything was operational one last time before squibbing the nano-dust canisters. After running through the last set of software diagnostics, and activating the nano-dust particles, he moved the computer mouse up to a soft switch button on his screen and clicked the left button on the mouse just once.  Instantly a seal was broken on each canister and billions of nano-dust particles began to spew from the canisters and down into the air conditioning intake shaft towards the conference room’s occupants.
    The secretary was in the midst of her speech when the first nano-dust particles entered the room through the air conditioning registers three minutes later. Due to their nanometer in diameter size, the nano-dust particles went unnoticed as they first drifted into the air, and then were inhaled by both the secretary and her audience.
    “As all of you are already aware, our planet is suffering from increasing global climate change and related elevated temperatures,” said Secretary Devins. “Scientific evidence has proven that the global climate change is the result mainly of mankind, and in particular the most industrialized nations. Our President also acknowledges the fact that it is the United States that is chiefly responsible for causing global warming. Being the leader of all industrialized nations over the past century, and acknowledging that our citizens have an insatiable appetite for energy, and the consumption of all types of products, the President and his administration formally apologies to the other nations of the world for its citizen’s decadence.” The audience listened intently, with some squirming slightly in their seats, and no one saying a word.  The Secretary went on speaking.
    “The President, however, realizes that just saying sorry isn’t sufficient. It’s not fair to our sick planet, and for the entire world’s population, to just provide some apologetic lip service to this issue.  As a nation, we need to make amends to the planet and the world, but in a smart way. In a way that improves not only the health of the planet, but that also raises the economic and health conditions of every person in the world. Hopefully, by leading by example we can convince other industrialized nations to follow in our footsteps.”
    There were numerous murmurs from the audience, but none that could clearly be made out by neither Dave, nor anyone else trying to sift through the whispered conversations. Reading the audiences faces, however, Dave could sense a combination of nervous excitement and genuine concern. He wasn’t sure if all the business men and women liked where this speech was heading. The Secretary continued.
    “So the President and his administration have developed a master plan that we believe will eliminate the threat of global climate change and lead an economic recovery to our nation in just a few short years,” said Secretary Devins.
    “As I am sure all of you are regrettably aware of, the hybrid automobile never was embraced whole heartedly by the American public, even though our government heavily subsidized both the development cost and the purchase price of the vehicles. Our citizens simply preferred to stick with their larger gas guzzling cars, because they cost 25% less than the hybrid vehicles we produced for them. The American public couldn’t look past their personal economic situations to see the true value of the hybrid vehicle that it offered to the world. With its better fuel efficiency, and ubiquitous deployment and manufacturing of it all around the world, everyone on the planet would have gained. Both economically and health wise. But unfortunately it wasn’t to be. The American public needed even more prodding and incentives that we as the federal government were simply too