Guest Blogger Cameron Atwood — Part Two: Why Aren’t We Moving?! – Practical and Philosophical Obstacles to Achieving A Renewable, Efficient and Sustainable Energy Infrastructure
Here is Part Two of Cameron Atwood’s article discussing: Where are we going now? Where do we want to go? Where do we need to go? What stands in our way?
Taxpayer Sacrifices for Our Continued Inefficiency and Dependence
There are many closely related grounds for urgently arriving at a more enlightened energy strategy. In another example of cruelly regressive wealth transfer and force projection, $1.05 trillion has been borrowed from present and future taxpayers to wage war in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 – averaging a drain of more than $116 billion per year. (This doesn’t include the tragic human cost, or the loss of productivity and treatment costs as a result of that butchery.)