Al Gore Connects the Dots
"We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that's got to change."
-- A Generational Challenge to Repower America, Thursday, July 17, 2008.
by Aaron Naparstek on July 22, 2008
"We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that's got to change."
-- A Generational Challenge to Repower America, Thursday, July 17, 2008.
We're so screwed - this douchebag wants us to zip around in electric cars and build power lines from solar and wind rich areas to areas of existing development. Hah!
He is trying to weasel a way for 'Merica to keep growing its energy use (which has been what drove our constantly expanding economy for so long).
Unfortunately, the gig is up! He' talking about all of this meta level crap, but the reality is that the way we occupy the landscape is now a non-starter. It simply does not work without cheap energy.
Why is the environmental community such a bunch of suckers?
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– Yoshiyahu In response to "Caution! Please Pass with Care!"
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