"The good old days"
Do you remember the "good old days" when, while trying to promote a bit of decency in the use of natural resources and some respect of Mother Nature, we were accused of dangerously playing with the health of the economy? Do you remember those days?
Well, what an irony. The economy is bad and nobody has done yet anything for the environment. What happened? Oh, yes. Oil (and the gridiness of speculators and bankers trying to get easy money on the back of mortgage-seeking people). Oil. That Grande Dame we were supposed to protect, without which the entire economy would fail. Thanks Madame. And thanks the economist and right-wing experts for this ultra vision of yours. What a prediction. Why did you not tell us that Oil itself will destroy the economies of the World? Why did you not see that?
If people would not die of hunger because of that, I actually would be happy to see such high price of Oil. It is now expensive to move your car or to travel and we now all need to adjust ourself to this situation... or to invest in green technologies that are a win-win-win situation: 1) independence, 2) cheap and 3) less polluting. Where am I wrong?
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I totally agree with you, but the problem is that given how far we let the world economy rely on cheap fossil fuels, and how little we have developed "green" technologies for producing energy, the economy cannot work on "green" energy sources alone any more, even if we develop them like crazy ! What is needed is a complete redesign of how our economy works, trying to minimize transport needs of goods and people (consume locally grown food, redesign cities, etc...) and to minimize energy wastes (better insulation of buildings, better management of electricity use, more efficient cars, etc...). Then maybe we'll be able to rely on "green" energy to fulfill most of our needs.
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