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With a recession dogging North America, many economists and politicians are arguing that it simply isn't the time to tackle climate change because it would kill the economy.
Unless, of course, it would actually save the economy.
And therein lies the rub. Too many people in power have bought into a 19th century philosophies that hold no currency in a 21st century world. The dichotomy they are pushing is a verifiably false. It doesn't have to be the economy or the environment. We don't have to sacrifice one to save the other.
This is not a new theory. Even conservatives and market analysts can see the logic and wisdom if they take off their ideological blinders.
Take a dyed-in-the-wool conservative Republicans like Texas oil-man billionaire T. Boone Pickens — the horrible partisan behind the Swift Boat Campaign of 2004. Even Pickens realizes that it's absolutely ridiculous for their fellow patriots to continue buying oil at $80 a barrel, and sending money to countries that are openly antagonistic to the American Way of Life. I did the math; the US will pay more than $700 billion annually to other nations if the price of oil rises to a $150 a barrel, which many analysts say is a foregone conclusion and likely to come sooner rather than later.
We did the ciphering for Canada, too. Even if we're kinder to our home and native land, and price oil at $100 a barrel for our exercise, and even though Canada imports less oil than the US, and even though we use less oil per capita than Americans, every year we still send $44 billion of our money to other countries.
Imagine how much better off we'd be be if that Canadian money stayed in Canada.
If you live in North America, imagine how much better off you'd be every year if you could cut your electrical bill by 25 percent, make your car miserly to the tune of 60 mpg, and heat your 3,000 square foot home — if you're lucky to own such a large one — for less than $1,000 a year.
Imagine.
And here's the kicker: we can get there from here. All those clean technologies that will save you money are currently on the market. The painful, boring, grab-the-electorate by-the scruff-of-the-neck-and-make-them-wear-Birkenstocks-and-eat-granola vision of a clean energy future has little basis in reality.
Facts are important. People who support a fossil fuel industry are entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own set of facts.
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Campaign # 2: Canada's Sorry Environmental Record
Canada: World's Worst Climate Villain | Turning the Corner: Conservative Disaster | Harper and Climate Change |
Campaign #3: Slow the Tar Sands
Alberta Tar Sands (Overview) | Alberta Tar Sands: Modern Parable | Alberta Tar Sands 2 | Alberta Tar Sands 3 | Alberta Tar Sands 4
Campaign # 4: Old King Coal (Coming Soon)
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USA: Supporting Obama's Leadership
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