A New Energy Paradigm, and a New Perspective Towards the Old One
In response to my post Energy Policy: Taking a Stand Against Fossil Fuels, frequent 2GreenEnergy commenter Cameron Atwood writes:
Change is always obstructed, no matter how needed or wise, but the forces are growing, aligning and massing – technology, money power, profit motive, people power, self-preservation, sustainability and morality – all with compatible ends in view… with the common core focus on moving from fossil sunlight to modern sunlight. This represents hope for the continuity and evolution of civilization, as opposed to the deadly and crises-laden devolution into deprivation, chaos and conflict that will attend further delay.
I’m with you all the way.
Here’s another prediction: a few decades from now, after the fossil fuel industries have been all but completely obsoleted, the oil companies will be bragging about how they worked hard to bring about the transition to clean energy. This will of course be tripe, but billions of dollars will have been spent in philanthropy and other forms of public relations, and many people will believe the bogus claims.
John D. Rockefeller was arguably the most ruthless single person of 20th Century America. What’s he known for now? Universities, museums, and tourist attractions.
