Will market forces get us out of this mess considering it is because of these forces is why we are here?
Paul Roberts offers good analysis of this very subject in his The END of OIL: On the Edge of a Perilous New World.
The cost to pollute (carbon - which is the basic of cheap energy) is very cheap. Market forces won't change until it is too expensive to pollute and money will have to be made by cleaner fuels. It is all about money.
This change in market forces won't happen unless governments make it expensive to pollute and use enegy wastefully.
We need a Marshall Plan initiated by the governments to hang the carrot for market forces to follow.
The key question is whether the governments have the wherewithall to make this 'right turn' of change.
No. It is all about money and power - Wall Street and Big Money - Capitalism. Oil is big money. The voters of the coal states influence an energy policy that includes very polluting coal.
Kyoto with its best intentions was again, about Europe versus America. Geopolitical posturing to ensure economic advantage over the other party.
There is much very wrong with our world and capitalism and it's market forces will not solve it - not in the few years that we have left to make for an orderly change.
Paul Roberts offers good analysis of this very subject in his The END of OIL: On the Edge of a Perilous New World.
The cost to pollute (carbon - which is the basic of cheap energy) is very cheap. Market forces won't change until it is too expensive to pollute and money will have to be made by cleaner fuels. It is all about money.
This change in market forces won't happen unless governments make it expensive to pollute and use enegy wastefully.
We need a Marshall Plan initiated by the governments to hang the carrot for market forces to follow.
The key question is whether the governments have the wherewithall to make this 'right turn' of change.
No. It is all about money and power - Wall Street and Big Money - Capitalism. Oil is big money. The voters of the coal states influence an energy policy that includes very polluting coal.
Kyoto with its best intentions was again, about Europe versus America. Geopolitical posturing to ensure economic advantage over the other party.
There is much very wrong with our world and capitalism and it's market forces will not solve it - not in the few years that we have left to make for an orderly change.