I'm doing my part as a brainwashed minion to shamelessly promote this website. I don't care whatsoever about climate change because I don't think human intervention has anything to do with it, but Al Gore made a good point in his speech today:
In my search for genuinely effective answers to the climate crisis, I have held a series of "solutions summits" with engineers, scientists, and CEOs. In those discussions, one thing has become abundantly clear: when you connect the dots, it turns out that the real solutions to the climate crisis are the very same measures needed to renew our economy and escape the trap of ever-rising energy prices. Moreover, they are also the very same solutions we need to guarantee our national security without having to go to war in the Persian Gulf.
And hey, if it makes the climate crisis doom-criers happy, that's just icing on the cake!
So here's the plug: http://www.wecansolveit.org. Go there and do... something. Ride the bus tomorrow. Turn off your A/C when you leave. It'll save you money and save the world too. How many opportunities do you have in your life to be altruistic through selfishness? :-)
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Want to reduce our use of oil to clean up the environment? Raise the price. Notice that pretty much every car company is releasing an electric car in 2009-10? They're not doing that because they care about the environment; it all comes down to money, the biggest motivator.
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