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More on the economic benefits of clean energy

by: heath_harrison

Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 06:56:08 AM EST


by heath_harrison

- Frances Beinecke, president of the  Natural Resources Defense Council, gives an excellent rebuttal to Don Blankenship's latest load of B.S.

While it baffles me that flat-Earthers like Blankenship still exist, my response to the last few deniers is simple.

If you don't believe in the science, that's your problem. But the need for America to generate jobs and strengthen our national security is paramount, and clean energy is the fastest way to achieve that.

Full piece here.

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Bob Herbert in NY Times (4.00 / 1)
Signs of Hope

You want new industry in the United States, with astonishing technological advances, new mass production techniques and jobs, jobs, jobs? Try energy.

[snip]

The point is that these (and many more) brilliant, innovative technologies are here. They are real, tangible. They exist. What's needed now is the will to develop policies that will vastly expand these advances and radically reduce their costs. The United States should be leading the world in the creation of whole new energy technologies and industries, instead of allowing the forces of the old carbon-based industries - coal, oil, gasoline-powered vehicles - to stand obstinately in the way of real progress.



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