I have been speaking a lot over the last few years about America's need to assume a leadership role in clean energy technologies and solving (or heavily mitigating) the global climate crises. I am happy to see an important change in attitudes and value systems of people across the world -and particularly in this country- as it relates to our shared dilemma... shifting from a mind set of wastefulness and resource depletion... to one of energy conservation and independence, recycling [everything we can] and moving toward a world that runs on clean, renewable energy and treating our planet's resources in a way that is sustainable for our many future generations.
Now that we have achieved a critical mass in collective thinking and concern about these issues it is time to start investing in and developing these innovative technologies and solutions... lest we allow ourselves to fall further behind the many countries that have leaped ahead of US in 'green tech' investment and research. It was America that created the ideas and technologies that have have changed the world several times over... from the industrial revolution to the information [technology] revolution... and now where are we? Behind the curve.
I just read a spot-on article http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/13/shapiro.green.jobs/index.html by Andrew L. Shapiro, founder and president of GreenOrder, offering a very reasoned assessment of where we are, what we need to do -as a nation- in order to help save our planet AND OUR ECONOMY from it's current peril.
The benefits of an even greater investment -by our government, our private sector and ourselves- in the new green economy are pretty clear.
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