Queueing It Up for Tomorrow: National Clean Energy Summit
It’s Sunday night here, but I’ve scheduled this post to be published at 2:45 tomorrow morning, the time at which I’ll get up, dress hurriedly, drive down to Los Angeles, and fly to Las Vegas for the 8th annual National Clean Energy Summit.
According to the promoters’ literature, I’ll enjoy a wonderful opportunity to hook up with: Clean energy advocates, business leaders, public officials and bipartisan decision makers (who) will assemble to explore solutions for the advancement of the clean energy economy through innovation, investment and strengthened collaboration. I don’t doubt any of this for a second; I’m looking to every aspect of the whole day (with the exception of my alarm ringing in just a few hours.)
President Obama will deliver the keynote. It will be a pleasure to applaud a man who, overall, has done a fine job vis-à-vis environmental stewardship. Of course, I had hoped for more from Obama in this arena. Didn’t we all? But, on balance, he’s done good work here, in a political climate that featured some considerable headwinds.
More on this from Vegas….
Compared with so many presidents who publicly recognized the evil of our addiction to petroleum, and recommended steps to address it, and then accomplished nothing or worse, Obama has achieved some small success.
He now needs to be continually pushed toward far greater strides, as will his successor.
The efforts of the opposing interests are colossal, highly calculated, well-placed and well-funded. Massive popular activism is needed to counter them.