Drop what your doing and read this from the New York Times Feburary 27 2010, an Oped. piece written by former Vice President Al Gore.
A better round up of the forces at work in US and Global Politics around the paramount issues of Global Warming, Deregulation and Global Restructuring of the Economy I have not read.
Well done Mr Gore!
Snippet courtesy The New York Times
Op-Ed ContributorWe Can’t Wish Away Climate Change
By AL GORE
Published: February 27, 2010
It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.
Of course, we would still need to deal with the national security risks of our growing dependence on a global oil market dominated by dwindling reserves in the most unstable region of the world, and the economic risks of sending hundreds of billions of dollars a year overseas in return for that oil. And we would still trail China in the race to develop smart grids, fast trains, solar power, wind, geothermal and other renewable sources of energy — the most important sources of new jobs in the 21st century.
But what a burden would be lifted! We would no longer have to worry that our grandchildren would one day look back on us as a criminal generation that had selfishly and blithely ignored clear warnings that their fate was in our hands. We could instead celebrate the naysayers who had doggedly persisted in proving that every major National Academy of Sciences report on climate change had simply made a huge mistake.
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