> What many people do not understand about clean energy is that it is a
> major economic boon to any country that would embrace it. The clean
> energy technologies - wind power, solar power, coal sequestration,
> hydrogen engines, sun-beam technology - are all brain-intensive,
> technology-intensive industries. Which means that they will directly
> create millions of jobs - engineering and technology jobs to develop
> the technologies, and manufacturing and construction jobs to put them
> in place. And that will be an effective way to put back to work the
> parts of America that have taken a hit from displacement of industry
> to other countries.
>
> It is also a way to wrest the world free of the stranglehold exercised
> by oil-funded fundamentalists in Texas, Oklahoma, Iran and Saudi
> Arabia, as well as dictators in Venezuela, Lybia and Kazakhstan. With
> energy production no longer under control of oppressors, there are
> stronger economical foundations for liberty in all of the world,
> including in what is known as the free world. With vital resources not
> under control of despots and fundamentalists, there is less change of
> free world being sabotaged, as it has been sabotaged by Texas Oil's
> puppet regime.
>
> Clean energy is also a way to extend humanity's lease on the planet.
> It is true progress: Affectuating greater utility with higher
> technology and less waste. The prosperous lifestyle can be maintained,
> while significantly reducing its negative effects, simply by changing
> the sources of energy to ones that are non-polluting and by removing
> the polluting elements from existing sources. The economic growth in
> China, India and elsewhere can be accommodated - by applying
> intelligence to use clean energy and to reduce carbon dioxide
> emissions from current sources.
>
> Clean energy is also a boon for character and thought habits that it
> fosters. Instead of seeing world as one in which it is jobs against
> the environment or civilization against nature, choose one or the
> other, the thinking turns to jobs and environment, civilization and
> nature, together: Accommodate both at once by creating jobs that
> produce wealth in a more prudent and more responsible way. Instead of
> people having to be fragmented between social responsibility and
> wealth, nature and civilization, feeling and intellect, ideal and
> reality, instead they become beings of both, and making the most of
> the aspects of human beingness that are in false dualistic thinking
> seen to be irrevocably at war. And this serves both the integration of
> human character as much as it serves longevity and economic well-being
> of humankind.
>
> Clean energy is a solution that uses the best of civilization - its
> intelligence, its foresight, its knowledge, its inventive pioneering
> thinking - to minimize negative impact of economic activity on nature
> and on the future generations, while providing through ingenuity and
> constructive endeavor a lifestyle as good as or better than one that
> they've had before. Man stops being an agent of destruction of nature
> and becomes an agent of coexistence with nature, both in the short and
> the long term. The people who for idealistic reasons are loathe to
> participate in oil-run economy, have an economic pursuit in which they
> can work and be true to ideals. And intelligence becomes source not
> merely of wealth, but of lasting wealth that works with nature rather
> than against nature - and that as such benefits and makes the most of
> both nature and mankind.
>
> The mentality fostered is one of considering all aspects of one's
> activity - and building a civilization that not only minimizes
> negative impact on nature, but also applies the best of intelligence
> and the best of innovation and the best of productive activity to
> provide more for people while minimizing impact on what one has not
> created and cannot recreate. From modes of cognition that constantly
> create hostile dualities which necessitate constant destruction, human
> understanding reaches to see components working together and put into
> place a lifestyle that makes the most of all the components and makes
> the most as such of life.
>
> The character created is a life-supporting integrative character: A
> character that quantifies all aspects of life and works to make the
> most of them - to make the most as such of life that is a function of
> all of the aspects working together. Intellect and feeling,
> civilization and nature, ideal and reality, prosperity and social
> responsibility, work together and create people of true integrity -
> integrity that is result of integration of components required for
> life, and that as such is supportive of life rather than life-
> destructive. Which character, by building a synergy of components,
> attains to the most of human beingness; and which character, due to
> its very nature as a combiner and unifier, is also the character that
> seeks and actualizes lasting existence and lasting peace.
>
> All of which is a matter of all components of life working together to
> create and perpetuate life, both in its natural and its man-made
> aspects, and allowing them to operate with each other at basic and all
> other levels, rather than being, as in all separationist dogmas,
> inherently and pointlessly at war.
>
> Clean energy is good all around. It is good economically, it is good
> politically, it is good and it is good for the character and mentality
> that it fosters, and it is good in its effects on the world. The
> extent to which clean energy is embraced, will determine who lives and
> for how long. In 200 AD, a Roman named Hero of Alexandria invented the
> steam engine. The Romans refused to use it because they thought the
> slave labor was cheap enough for their purposes. This oversight led
> Roman Empire to decline and eventually to fall to Vandals. If the
> Romans had realized what they had, they would have industrialized 1700
> years before the Industrial Revolution and would have been completely
> invulnerable, and most likely the world would be speaking Latin even
> to this day.
>
> In choosing whether to embrace clean energy, the world at this time
> faces an analogous choice.