The Wrong Debate
by Zengeorge
Who cares if the climate is warming or cooling or doing loop-the-loops in dayglow colors while we endlessly and useless engage in the great climate change debate. I've got news for you.......the Earth's climate is, always has been and always will be changing. Mountains erode, lifeforms evolve and financial markets do their own weird change thing. Get used to it; get over it. The key issue is how we humans, being newcomers to the planet, can get all of the greedy energy requirements that we require without making a stinky mess in the process. Setting fire to stuff like wood, coal, charcoal, oil and gas has sustained us in recent years. We have even been smart enough to figure out how to "burn" enriched uranium in nuclear power stations. So woopee doopee, we know how to play with matches and burn stuff. But to be a really smart species we are going to have to figure out how to get our energy needs without setting fire to anything at all. Our salvation is up in the sky. Look up! See the sun; this is the source of nearly all of the energy potential of our world. Let us become harvestors of solar energy, let us fill our empty spaces with solar panels; let us sprinkle out coastlines, cliffs and hillsides with wiind turbines; let us produce the base load that we need a a local level and buy and sell our deficit and surplus on a truly open energy market. We already have all of the technology that we need. All that is required to eradicate, once and for all, our sad dependence on OPEC, the big oil and gas corporations and the stink of burning carbon is concerted will-power and bloody-minded determination. May your sunlight and your passing breeze become your energy provider.
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by Zengeorge
Who cares if the climate is warming or cooling or doing loop-the-loops in dayglow colors while we endlessly and useless engage in the great climate change debate. I've got news for you.......the Earth's climate is, always has been and always will be changing. Mountains erode, lifeforms evolve and financial markets do their own weird change thing. Get used to it; get over it. The key issue is how we humans, being newcomers to the planet, can get all of the greedy energy requirements that we require without making a stinky mess in the process. Setting fire to stuff like wood, coal, charcoal, oil and gas has sustained us in recent years. We have even been smart enough to figure out how to "burn" enriched uranium in nuclear power stations. So woopee doopee, we know how to play with matches and burn stuff. But to be a really smart species we are going to have to figure out how to get our energy needs without setting fire to anything at all. Our salvation is up in the sky. Look up! See the sun; this is the source of nearly all of the energy potential of our world. Let us become harvestors of solar energy, let us fill our empty spaces with solar panels; let us sprinkle out coastlines, cliffs and hillsides with wiind turbines; let us produce the base load that we need a a local level and buy and sell our deficit and surplus on a truly open energy market. We already have all of the technology that we need. All that is required to eradicate, once and for all, our sad dependence on OPEC, the big oil and gas corporations and the stink of burning carbon is concerted will-power and bloody-minded determination. May your sunlight and your passing breeze become your energy provider.
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