The obvious upshot of this history is that we’re not so trapped - TopicsExpress



          

The obvious upshot of this history is that we’re not so trapped after all, that there always were and always are other paths. The furious spending by the fossil fuel industry to fabricate science and to obfuscate climate truths is the final proof that it is an industry whose products are a contingent necessity, that we can go another way. Why would carbon corporations worry so much about maintaining our addiction if there weren’t good alternatives? Once we remove the dissembling and dependence-inducing influence of Big Oil from the energy picture, and once we make better use of our misdirected public resources (anywhere from $10 billion to $52 billion in annual subsidies, depending on whether you take into account defense expenditures), there’s no reason to think that a greener future is not imminently attainable.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 18:26:37 +0000

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