Do we realy walk the talk?
Just after a huge summit of G8 leaders with tons of discussions and headlines about how important climate change is, the EU signs a new “open skies” agreement with the USA which will add billions of tons of CO2 emissions to the skies? What kind of renewable energy policy will make up for that?
How many millions of solar panels must be installed to counter this and for how long must they run? It comes back to the conflict created by our everyday growth needs and desire to have even more “freedom to choose” and the immediacy of helping to reduce the emissions and thus climate change through man-made facts.
Whenever we come to a choice of the short vs long term, it seems that the long term LOSES in the case of climate change. While we certainly are making progress, I am wondering out loud if we will ever really be able to manifestly reduce CO2 emissions before we are able to 100% replace oil-burning engines and other applications. Time will tell yet I have a feeling that I won’t know in my generation. That burden will be passed onto our children, as with so many other “baggages” we choose to leave them through our everyday choices for the “immediate”…
Sass