Still, there’s immense political and corporate opposition. Entrenched oil, gas, and coal interests—among the most powerful in Washington—would fight tooth and nail with its very existence on the line. Pundits will call it infeasible, even with climate scientists warning over and over again that we’re approaching the brink of potentially catastrophic global warming. So what would Jacobson say to these critics, the standard bearers of the status quo, who say such a transformation just isn’t possible? I’d say there’s an information gap. I don’t find statements like that very credible; they don’t have the information at their fingertips, he said. I’d say we’ve looked at the statistics, we’ve looked at the numbers, and we can do this.” The process of arriving at decisions in a Resource-Based Economy would not be based upon the opinions of politicians, corporate, or national interests but rather all decisions would be arrived at based upon the introduction of newer technologies and Earths carrying capacity.
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 19:55:44 +0000
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