American Business Once Had a Conscience
What Thomas Edison said here in the 1880s is a reminder that all this could have gone another way; i.e., the entire environmental mess in which we find ourselves today could have been avoided.
Of course, before solar PV and nuclear came along in the mid-20th Century, we would have been talking about hydro, wind, geothermal, and solar thermal, but that would have been more than sufficient to keep coal in the ground and all those pollutants out of the air and water.
Craig,
“American Business Once Had a Conscience” !
When?
Of all your strange delusions, the idea that the industrial revolution could have come into existence without coal and later oil, is the strangest and most bizarre.
No industrial revolution, no hydro-, geothermal or solar would be possible. No steamships, no railway, no mass steel refinery, no machinery.
Without coal, the world would remain basically agrarian, burning wood for energy.
Such fantasizing is why the general public has lost faith in Climate change advocacy.
“”The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change!” rants Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Her devotees cheer her absurd remarks, but most sensible people just yawn and ignore her.
Al Gore and Former President Obama cry piteously “sea levels are rising soon Miami will be underwater” , yet strangely the both purchase multi-million beachside homes!
Professional climate advocate Bill McKibben of 350.org claims hurricanes are becoming more frequent and more far more violent due to climate change? (a claim you often repeat).
Yet, that simply isn’t correct! In fact, the opposite is true. Since the 1930’s, the intensity and frequency of hurricane activity has slightly decreased.
“How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood!” cried precocious teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg at the United Nations.
That’s the sort of hysterical, illogical, unscientific, maudlin nonsense peddled by an all too gullible or cynical media, and a vast industry of largely taxpayer funded “green” advocacy groups.
This is the new religion of the 21st century and bears little connection to science or even reason.