Industrial leaders in Germany are criticizing government leaders for failing to take effective action to address climate change, especially after the IPCC 6 climate assessment was release this week saying the world has only a dozen years to fix global warming.
The NY Times’ reporting on the California Solar Valley Ranch project and clean energy subsidies is so full of holes that NRG has issued a point-by-point rebuttal. The NYT article is symptomatic of the ugly, protracted decline of mainstream journalism in the US.
With the proposal of the $447 billion ‘American Jobs Act’ to a joint session of Congress Thursday night, President Obama again demonstrated his ability to recognize and zoom in on the key issues and challenges facing the US today. Job creation has become issue Number 1 on the political and public agenda, and with the ‘American Jobs Act,’ Pres. Obama and his administration have wasted no time in crafting a program that appears focused, forward looking, equitable and fiscally responsible.
Carbon may speed up the growth of trees (in the short-term) but certainly not our economy. For many decades, businesses were only functioning in one direction. This will have to change in the coming years, since such a one-way business focus, known as the river economy, is only focused on production of goods and leaving them in the hands of consumers, who throw them away after their product-life has ended. This will become less profitable in the coming years as the cost of natural resources will increase, resulting in higher development costs.
OK, I’m still going on my rant about U.S. politicians…. There are a few things that really have me going right now.
