0 Carbon Future – Now is the time
by Glen Hiemstra on 17/07/08 at 5:51 pm | 
Ok, now Al Gore has gone and done it.
This speech calling for a 10-year program to shift the entire U.S. electricity production to “0-carbon” via solar, wind, and geothermal is magnificent. It is the embodiment of what “bold vision,” “big hairy audacious goals,” and the “one thing” that changes everything are all about.
Can it be done? Easy, actually. Lucrative, certainly. Transformative, absolutely.
As you shift to 0-carbon electricity, you simultaneously shift to plug-in hybrid and electric cars, another winner for the U.S. economy and workers.
The money quote from Al Gore: “We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that’s got to change.”
Awesome. A roadmap for a positive future. The fact that this speech was one day past the anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11, which landed men on the moon in response to JFK’s 10-year challenge, was poetic.
No time to waste.
Glen Hiemstra is a futurist speaker, consultant, blogger, internet TV show host and founder of Futurist.com. To arrange for a speech contact Futurist.com.
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