Our Earth

There are people who oppose renewable energy sources, including the dontard.  The reason for this is pretty unclear, except for those who have a vested interest in carbon based energy sources like oil, gas, and coal.

Creating energy using solar, wind, tides, water flow or any other renewable source eliminates pollution and provides essentially the same energy as the other sources.  In some cases affordability cold be a factor but if you consider our recent past, the use of windmills and water mills were quite common.

We went through a period that we are still in where cheap carbon based energy became inexpensive and transportable.  We were able to have a tremendous expansion of industry, transportation and provided the ability to heat and cool our homes.

The side effect of this was that we saw an increase in pollution and a release of carbon into the atmosphere that creates a greenhouse effect.  Much of the pollution, especially some of the most visible has been controlled or eliminated.

We still rely to a great extent on carbon based energy, but we have taken many steps to be more efficient and we have seen some move towards use of renewable energy.

The point is that we have released so much carbon into the air that we are at a point where we need to change our ways to avoid fairly catastrophic results.  In fact we may be already be at a point where we already face dire consequences.

Each of us needs to continue reducing our use of carbon and require our politicians to accept the reality of climate change.