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In preparation for the upcoming Environmental Hall of Fame
ceremony in Los Angeles on June 5,6, I was asked to " prepare a statement of the primary recommendation to reduce global warming that will advance your cause and your top 5-10 recommendations to reduce global warming."
The following was my response:
New approaches are coming along continually that improve our ability to reduce our footprint while increasing our quality of living (which sometimes entails a simplification of our lifestyles). Having a body like our New Energy Congress that can stay abreast of the leading developments and bring them to the attention of the public, can help provide the information about how to most effectively accomplish this objective.
We expect that new energy methods will continue to emerge that will not only be renewable but also less expensive than fossil fuel-based energy. We also hope that at least one of these revolutionary approaches could be rolled out via open sourcing, enabling widespread penetration worldwide in a short period of time.
Top 5-10 recommendations to reduce global warming
- Methods are emerging for cost-effectively turning waste streams into energy. (Ref.) This addresses both the pollution issue as well as the energy issue. Every municipality should implement one of these myriad of approaches as soon as possible.
- There are thousands of proven methods for significantly increasing fuel economy and decreasing emissions, which are being implemented on a grassroots level on existing vehicles. (Ref.) The auto industry should implement these from the factory. The shift toward hybrids and all-electric vehicles should also be encouraged and supported, which can be powered from renewable energy sources.
- Clean energy technologies are arising that can replace fossil-fuel-based energy. (Ref.) Because these are increasingly cost effective, the market is likely to help expedite their emergence, first on the utility scale, then to a distributed level, then to a residential level, and eventually to an individual appliance level.
- An earth stewardship consciousness is increasing, which helps foster the right awareness and motivation to help these emerging solutions move forward expeditiously. (Ref.) Foremost among the attitude shifts needs to be a dramatic reduction in the consumerism mentality.
- Inasmuch as a significant degree of global warming is caused by natural mega cycles that we happen to be in, while we might intercede with large scale deflection approaches, an awareness that cycles of death and rejuvenation are natural should be held in perspective. While we should cut back and reverse our contribution to greenhouse gases, and we might even deflect some of the effects of natural greenhouse emissions, we shouldnt become too fixated on changing what may be a natural phenomenon.
I welcome input on the above for fine tuning it for the hall of fame event.
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On May 19, 2008, Wesley Bruce wrote:
I like the statement you've prepared for the Environmental Hall of Fame ceremony but there are two desperately needed point on biofuels that need to be made and it would add much to the statement. Would logically fit between 1 and 2.
There is intensive debate about food vs fuel in the biofuels field. Where biofuels are made from food grade crops the protein must not be destroyed or lost, or simply lost track of and left to rot. We can thus have both food and fuel. As biofuel industry transitions to cellulosic ethanol and algae oil, corn will be displaced; however we must ensure that an effort is made to create opportunities for both new technologies to spawn new foods and for both to be based on organic agriculture thus reducing oil inputs to zero and repopulating our farms with wildlife. This is the logical path forward in biofuel crops.
see: http://www.sustainableethanol.blogspot.com This addition to the statement would put us in the forefront of the food fuel debate with clear answers not just more question. It will defuse some arguments.
I'm in Australia. (We have record food price inflation yet produce no biofuels. It's all oil and drought.)
There are two people you need to seek out and get on your web radio program. One is Jeffrey Goettemoeller the author of the above cited blog and book. The other is Bob Zubrin the author of "Energy Victory" also a good book on biofuels. Zubrin has in the book exposed the misinformation circulated by biofuel critics including oil men and Earth First fanatics working "hand in glove". A very interesting story. http://www.energyvictory.net Zubrin is also the founder of the Mars Society and the man that designed the mars colonization program that everyone, NASA etc, is copying.
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D. Allan May 17, 2008 Last updated June 04, 2008
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