At 2GreenEnergy, we don’t back off from tough topics like runaway climate change and the hundreds of millions of climate refugees that will come as a result—or ocean acidification, or loss of biodiversity, or the decay of human health …
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The Arc of the Moral Universe: What Can We Expect?
Here’s a question posed by a certain Steve Charleston: I have a simple question for people of faith around the world: must it always be so? Must human history always be written as the aftermath of competition between the few …
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Tagged with: Age of Reason, ascendancy of Donald Trump, but it bends towards justice, Climate Change, end of Apartheid, Enlightenment, human civilization has become increasingly rational less brutal, it's up to every person of decency and compassion to make a daily effort to bend the arc of the moral universe in the right direction, loss of biodiversity, Magna Carta, ocean acidification, prospect of world fascism, Renaissance, the abolition of slavery, The Arc of the Moral Universe, The arc of the moral universe is long, the Geneva Convention, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, U.S. Constitution, women's suffrage
Optimism in the Face of Environmental Pressures
A young reader notes: (Through my religion), I now see hope for this planet where I had not seen any before. I was in fear that I would see the end of the planet during my lifetime. Now I see …
Tagged with: environmentalist, hugely toxic effects of fossil fuels, leaders of the world don’t care about climate change, loss of biodiversity, ocean acidification, survive environmental damage, wiping out the entirety of the progress that had been made in the direction of environmental stewardship over the past half-century in the U.S.
The Depletion of Fossil Fuels
Here’s a question that I just fielded on Quora.com (which is a very cool website, btw). When will fossil fuels be depleted? Never. Yes, there is a finite amount of coal, oil, and natural gas beneath the Earth’s surface, and …
Tagged with: Climate Change, Depletion of Fossil Fuels, environmental destruction, fossil fuel extraction is becoming unattractive, fossil resources, loss of biodiversity, ocean acidification, probability of environmental destruction, When will fossil fuels be depleted?, worsening outcomes for human health
Speaking at the International Trade Forum
I’ve been asked to speak at a conference next month in Connecticut, and I thought readers may be interested in my outline for the talk: Why cleantech is destined to become the defining industry of the 21st Century Tech in …
Tagged with: but both are occurring simultaneously Carrot/stick: Incentives to lower emissions, but will all arenas within cleantech achieve success? Hell no. Technology innovation, carbon tax The footprint associated with producing red meat Population growth OK, certainly not Washington. Either one will make this happen in a big way, cleantech destined to become the defining industry of the 21st Century, Climate Change, economics and politics (the “tough realities”) all conspire to make this very interesting. So where is this going? I can’t predict the future, electric transportation coming into the mainstream, factors driving the growth of Cleantech, human health issues, internalizing the externalities of fossil fuel consumption. This is being driven by grassroots, loss of biodiversity, ocean acidification
Here’s a Prediction of the Future: It Will Remain Unpredictable
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes: If you want to accept a doctrine based on faith, that’s okay by me. However, it precludes any objective or realistic analysis. No one can accurately predict the future. First, no one’s suggesting that taking things …
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Understanding the Subject of Sustainability from Two Opposite Directions
Here’s a short post in response to the altercation between two frequent commenters here, MarcoPolo and Cameron. To summarize this beef in a sentence, Cameron feels passionately that our civilization is headed for a fall due to its shortsightedness on …
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A Few Good Reasons to Short Oil Companies’ Stock
It certainly will be interesting to see how the stock market responds to the situation in which the oil companies will soon find themselves. There are several aspects of this, none of them good for share-holders (though very good for …
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Talking Points for Craig Shields’ Interview with the Wall Street Business Network
One of my colleagues is trying to put together an interview for me with the Wall Street Business Network, and asked me to develop some “talking points” to provide an example of how this might unfold. I just knocked out …
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Tagged with: Clean Power Act, Climate Change, cost of renewable energy non-competitive, Is Renewable Really Doable, LCOE levelized cost of energy, long-term environmental damage, loss of diversity, ocean acidification, phasing out fossil fuels, PPAs (power purchase agreements), readiness and scalability of renewable energy, Renewable Energy Finance Forum, replacing traditional energy resources, RPSs (renewable portfolio standards)
Marketing Can Be Shameless, and the Products It Promotes Can Be Harmful
I’ve been chatting with an old friend who, like me, had a long career in marketing; she became a VP at Grey Advertising. She told me about her experience at a practice round for the PGA Championship (that starts today …
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Tagged with: catastrophic climate change, electric transportation, energy storage, loss of biodiversity, marketing, ocean acidification, renewable energy and all the peripheral technologies, smart grid, sustainable ag, the fossil fuel boys knew 35 years ago that their business model (extracting the last molecule of petroleum out of the ground and burning it
