In an August 9, 2010 story about Huang Ming, chairman of Himin Solar Energy Group, a major solar panel manufacturer based in China, accepting a symbolic gift, to the people of China from Unity College, of a solar panel once installed on the roof of the White House, Ethan Andrews wrote: “In 1979 , President Jimmy Carter had 32 solar panels installed on the West Wing of the White House as a symbolic introduction of the administrations goal of getting 20 percent of the nations energy from renewable sources by the year 2000.” But, alas, this goal was not requited with success.
Why was this noble effort not paid back with tangible results? Wouldn’t it have been nice to have all those jobs in renewable energy manufacturing for us working middle class Americans from then to now? Think about it, good paying clean safe jobs for middle class people, millions of us, instead of a few rich greedy owners and non producing speculators in dirty fossil fuel energy industries, like oil and coal. These people take for themselves such a big slice of the economic pie, while polluting our world with their filthy byproducts until it will, eventually, become unlivable. Are they so obtuse that they can’t see that they will suffer the same fate.
This group, and if you will just dwell on it for a while, you will intuitively know who they are, they are the ones who oppose any real change, those against any real progress—you can never join them (there isn’t room for you), they are not your friends and never have been.
In our U.S. system we need to oppose their, bought and paid for, legislators in government. We need to put the pressure on our representatives, after all, they work for us, to enact an equitable tax on carbon, one that will be fully refunded to all energy consumers,
An organized effort to do just that can be found at 350.org, let’s all get together there.
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