Why do we continue to ignore what is so obvious!

The huge, devastating oil spill in Louisiana, including a tragic loss of life among oil workers, has fouled thousands of square miles of water and is now threatening to do the same to the shore. Recently, 25 coal miners died in West Virginia in the worst mining disaster in decades.


The earth is bleeding oil, the sky is crying acid rain, and people and wildlife are dying because of our efforts to extract energy from it the hard way to let us maintain our modern lifestyle with all of its conveniences. What a waste, when will the public stand up against fossil fuels and start buying renewable energy products. Mother Nature has already given us the sun and wind to provide virtually all our power needs. And not only are they going to be much better for the environment and Mother Earth: Renewable energy manufacturing, installing, maintenance and related endeavors already are producing thousands of safe, well-paying jobs in the U.S. and could produce hundreds of thousands more while giving us a badly needed economic boost. It may sound corny, but solar is the new gold and wind is the new silver. Together – including other renewables such as geothermal, wave power and even biofuels – they could become an extremely valuable new energy currency.

Sadly, many other countries are realizing the vast potential of renewable energy much more than we are. In getting power from the sun, wind and other renewables, the U.S. lags behind (and in some cases far behind) nations such as Brazil, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Israel and China, to name a few. The largest nation on earth does continue to build many new coal plants for its current power needs. But it’s also going gang-busters with both large and small-scale wind and solar projects. China and these other countries realize that renewable energy and energy efficiency are the future.

The U.S. is taking steps to show that it’s seeing the light (literally) and jumping on the rapidly accelerating renewable energy train. President Obama, marking the 40th Earth Day at a wind turbine plant in Iowa, said that renewable energy will simultaneously create jobs, increase national security and help the environment. He declared, "The choice we face is not between saving our environment and saving our economy -- it's a choice between prosperity and decline." Obama predicted, "The nation that leads the world in creating new sources of clean energy will be the nation that leads the 21st century global economy." We better hurry!!
(written by George Lopez and Alan Cohen)
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