His letter explains that he wasn't selling tooling because he feared downstream liability.

...which utter nonsense. Terms of sale include zero liability. Done, solved.

No, this man was just petulant that after decades of not following employment/environmental/fire regulations, he was finally being held to them...and his answer was to burn everything to the ground out of petulance.

> Terms of sale include zero liability. Done, solved.

Dude, if I sell contaminated goods to person B, person B can sign a release that they won't sue me... but they can't promise that person C or government D won't.

Even if they indemnify me, it doesn't necessarily mean I'm off the hook.

I'm much more in in why nobody is apparently interested in the history of anti competitive business practices including product dumping and downstream supply chain hostage taking, that this article almost implies have been accepted eccentricities of Clark for reasons unspecified but implied to have something of a cult worship element involved.

The shapers who bought the blanks and their customers in turn share his responsibility for whatever environmental damage his manufacturing caused. Any inconvenience they suffered was deserved. Polluters love to run this "won't somebody think of the customers?!" bullshit to defend the indefensible.