Green Energy Revolution
Change is the theme of the Obama administration.
Some changes are painful and some changes take us down a dead-end path, but some changes are necessary.
Thoughtful people agree that unrestricted capitalism without accountability is no longer in the best interest of our planet or its inhabitants.
The "American Dream" has become a working class nightmare.
Blue-collar jobs disappear in the US and reappear in countries where production costs are low.
School taxes and property taxes escalate as new, progressive educators lose their jobs to antiquated ways.
For these and other reasons we are at the beginning stages of a green energy revolution.
The price of oil and natural gas coal will continues to rise.
The rich will get richer and the poor will be faced with foreclosures, but hopefully the sleeping masses will soon wake up.
Feargenerated by the media has destroyed hope for a better tomorrow.
If we have nothing to hope for we become paralyzed and all the forces that make life worth living come to an abrupt stop BUT it's only when we stand on the edge of the cliff that we realize it's time for change.
We are confused by too many choices, and like all animals we follow the path of least resistance.
As human beings we have the ability to read between the lines, but we can only do this by taking a step back from the precipice to re-examine our options.
Objectivity goes out the window when we become entangled with the problems we are trying to solve.
Judges recuse themselves from cases with a vested interest and so governments must recuse themselves from the demands of large corporations.
It's easy to allow paper mills the right to dump toxic chemicals into surrounding lakes, but it's not so easy for fishing industries to recover from years of inappropriate waste disposal.
We should march to the beat of a different drummer because we are standing on a dangerous precipice.
The temperature is rising.
The icecaps are melting and the oil is washing up on our beaches.
The water tables are deeper now and the process of Hydrofracking is making it more difficult to find clean water.
The food we eat is tainted with toxic pesticides, antibiotics and growth hormones.
The air is thick with nitrobenzenes and other carcinogenic pollutants.
Asthma is on the rise and governments are reluctant to place restrictions on the factories responsible; yet our world population continues to escalate at an exponential rate.
The quality of life is down and the rate of unemployment is up.
Job opportunities for young people revolve around military carriers and defense related industries.
Change is possible only if we take off the blindfolds before stumbling over the edge.
There is a safe path down the side of the mountain to the fertile valley below, but the journey will not be easy and we'll have to do some soul-searching to find our way.
A green revolution is now in progress but the green back dollar is not so green.
We've been off the gold standard since Nixon removed us in 1972.
Money is now only worth what we think it's worth.
The little money we have left will soon be gone when the tax man come a knocking on our front door so what can we do? Bartering was once a viable alternative to cash.
Our ancestors did not always use money to purchase goods; they traded for products and services.
My great Uncle John was a doctor in the small town of Honesdale, PA.
Many of his patience had no cash so they paid Uncle John in Eggs or Milk or Cheese.
Uncle John would have liked cash but many of his patience had none so John settled for produce.
My father's favorite uncle was Uncle Tom.
He made a business out of bartering.
Uncle Tom ran a blacksmiths-shop around the turn of the 19th century.
He shoed horses for a living, but once automobiles became popular he found it difficult to keep up with the basic necessities of life.
To remedy the situation Uncle Tom decided to trade animals with the farmers in Honesdale.
Trading animals was Uncle Tom's specialty.
He would get up early in the morning with a non-laying hen under his arm and walk a few miles down a dusty road to trade with a friend who happened to like hens on his dinner table.
A laying-hen was traded for Tom's non-laying hen and Uncle Tom continued down the road.
The next farmer had more baby goats than he knew what to do with so a swap was in order.
A dairy farmer with a dried up cow came next and then it was off to the pig farmer.
By the end of the day Uncle Tom returned home with a milking cow.
This is how bartering was done in the good old days and this is how it may be done again in the near future if our economic turmoil continues.
Local business interactions may also alleviate some of the problems of global trading.
Everything we buy does not have to come from China.
Responsible local trading could offset shipping expenses.
Local organic farms could supply fresh high quality produce that would have more health benefits than remote farms using artificial fertilizers.
Local businesses create jobs, are good for the economy and have less of an environmental impact than foreign trade.
Farming out jobs to countries on the other side of the ocean is not in the best interest of everyone concerned.
Green Energy is an integral part of the Green revolution.
Renewable energy resources like solar collectors and solar panels and windmills we be an essential part of our future economy.
These applications will not only provide energy independence but they will also provide the much-needed jobs that everyone is talking about.
Change is possible and a green energy revolution is possible, but this transformation of an oil-based economy into a sun-based economy will only take place if we make it so.
Some changes are painful and some changes take us down a dead-end path, but some changes are necessary.
Thoughtful people agree that unrestricted capitalism without accountability is no longer in the best interest of our planet or its inhabitants.
The "American Dream" has become a working class nightmare.
Blue-collar jobs disappear in the US and reappear in countries where production costs are low.
School taxes and property taxes escalate as new, progressive educators lose their jobs to antiquated ways.
For these and other reasons we are at the beginning stages of a green energy revolution.
The price of oil and natural gas coal will continues to rise.
The rich will get richer and the poor will be faced with foreclosures, but hopefully the sleeping masses will soon wake up.
Feargenerated by the media has destroyed hope for a better tomorrow.
If we have nothing to hope for we become paralyzed and all the forces that make life worth living come to an abrupt stop BUT it's only when we stand on the edge of the cliff that we realize it's time for change.
We are confused by too many choices, and like all animals we follow the path of least resistance.
As human beings we have the ability to read between the lines, but we can only do this by taking a step back from the precipice to re-examine our options.
Objectivity goes out the window when we become entangled with the problems we are trying to solve.
Judges recuse themselves from cases with a vested interest and so governments must recuse themselves from the demands of large corporations.
It's easy to allow paper mills the right to dump toxic chemicals into surrounding lakes, but it's not so easy for fishing industries to recover from years of inappropriate waste disposal.
We should march to the beat of a different drummer because we are standing on a dangerous precipice.
The temperature is rising.
The icecaps are melting and the oil is washing up on our beaches.
The water tables are deeper now and the process of Hydrofracking is making it more difficult to find clean water.
The food we eat is tainted with toxic pesticides, antibiotics and growth hormones.
The air is thick with nitrobenzenes and other carcinogenic pollutants.
Asthma is on the rise and governments are reluctant to place restrictions on the factories responsible; yet our world population continues to escalate at an exponential rate.
The quality of life is down and the rate of unemployment is up.
Job opportunities for young people revolve around military carriers and defense related industries.
Change is possible only if we take off the blindfolds before stumbling over the edge.
There is a safe path down the side of the mountain to the fertile valley below, but the journey will not be easy and we'll have to do some soul-searching to find our way.
A green revolution is now in progress but the green back dollar is not so green.
We've been off the gold standard since Nixon removed us in 1972.
Money is now only worth what we think it's worth.
The little money we have left will soon be gone when the tax man come a knocking on our front door so what can we do? Bartering was once a viable alternative to cash.
Our ancestors did not always use money to purchase goods; they traded for products and services.
My great Uncle John was a doctor in the small town of Honesdale, PA.
Many of his patience had no cash so they paid Uncle John in Eggs or Milk or Cheese.
Uncle John would have liked cash but many of his patience had none so John settled for produce.
My father's favorite uncle was Uncle Tom.
He made a business out of bartering.
Uncle Tom ran a blacksmiths-shop around the turn of the 19th century.
He shoed horses for a living, but once automobiles became popular he found it difficult to keep up with the basic necessities of life.
To remedy the situation Uncle Tom decided to trade animals with the farmers in Honesdale.
Trading animals was Uncle Tom's specialty.
He would get up early in the morning with a non-laying hen under his arm and walk a few miles down a dusty road to trade with a friend who happened to like hens on his dinner table.
A laying-hen was traded for Tom's non-laying hen and Uncle Tom continued down the road.
The next farmer had more baby goats than he knew what to do with so a swap was in order.
A dairy farmer with a dried up cow came next and then it was off to the pig farmer.
By the end of the day Uncle Tom returned home with a milking cow.
This is how bartering was done in the good old days and this is how it may be done again in the near future if our economic turmoil continues.
Local business interactions may also alleviate some of the problems of global trading.
Everything we buy does not have to come from China.
Responsible local trading could offset shipping expenses.
Local organic farms could supply fresh high quality produce that would have more health benefits than remote farms using artificial fertilizers.
Local businesses create jobs, are good for the economy and have less of an environmental impact than foreign trade.
Farming out jobs to countries on the other side of the ocean is not in the best interest of everyone concerned.
Green Energy is an integral part of the Green revolution.
Renewable energy resources like solar collectors and solar panels and windmills we be an essential part of our future economy.
These applications will not only provide energy independence but they will also provide the much-needed jobs that everyone is talking about.
Change is possible and a green energy revolution is possible, but this transformation of an oil-based economy into a sun-based economy will only take place if we make it so.
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