A Clean Energy Future Is Inevitable

It’s always great to come across people who “get it.” The authors of this article begin their piece: While a clean energy future is inevitable, questions remain about how quickly we will get there.

Exactly.  I wish I had a dollar for every time I’ve said this.  No one really thinks we’re going to be burning coal and driving Hummers in half a century.  But with respect to how long it will take, there are important corollary questions, like:  How much damage will we have done in the meanwhile?

Even Shell Oil predicts that solar will overtake oil by 2060.  The problem, of course, is that 47 more years of accelerated greenhouse gas emissions (not to mention mercury, selenium, etc.) will have had devastating effects on the natural environment, as well as on all life forms here on the home planet.   The race is on.