Jericho: Green for Good
Even if you do nothing else of lasting value this week, read this article.
Dare to say no to fossil fuels.
Dare to say no to fossil fuels.
posted by Jericho Brown at 7/20/2006 02:22:00 PM
Thursday, July 20, 2006
6 Comments:
On the one hand, it is good to see such a diverse group of people going green. Unfortunately, it may be a bit on the late side. There is ever more convincing data that we are close to, if not past, a tipping point - an environmental point of no return. Add to that greater and greater energy consumption in the developing world and we may well be screwed.
It may just be better to put our time and resources into dealing with what's coming as it seems unlikely we will prevent it.
Speaking of the wrath of god, we just went through the equivelant of a force 1 hurricane last night;
Speaking on NewsChannel 5 at Noon, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay says he has asked Missouri Governor Matt Blunt to call in the National Guard and declare a "State of Emergency." Mayor Slay said he expects National Guard troops to begin arriving Thursday evening.
Storms tore through the St. Louis area Wednesday night, causing damage, accidents and power outages. The storms came from the northeast, heading in a southwest direction.
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Powerful storms in STL are nothing new. A storm of THIS power screams out "Global Warming".
It seems like everyone is assuming that Asia in it's rush to modernize will make the same mistakes we made. They seem to be assuming that oil is their only choice because it's easy and readily availible.
The truth is that oil is not easy, it takes a lot of infrastructure. Oil is readily availible, but at it's current rates, it's extremely expensive. A developing country might want a cheaper way to go.
If they are building infrastructure and if their strength lies in agriculture, it seems to me that ethanol and biodiesel are the way to go. Hopefully I'm not wrong and hopefully they are thinking in the same way.
One hopes. But so far, Brazil is the only non-oil dependant that has any sort of infrastructure. There is a great deal of oil flowing into China and India and the demand for the moment is going up.
As for the storms, it is not just the strength, though it wa mighty. It was the fact that it came from the northeast. Storms are supposed to move east, not west.
BTW, I am in no way arguing against going green. Clean, domestically produced energy is a consumation devoutly to be wished. I'm just saying that we should also be looking at being prepared to deal with what we have wrought.
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