About twenty years ago, the powerful nations of the world got together and talked about the environment. They all agreed that we had to do something, and promised that they would, and then they went home and forgot.
Twenty years later they got together again to talk about the same subject. At least this time they were more honest. They walked away from the talks saying “We need to do something, but we don’t really feel like it.”
There are scientists that say that we have a 50% chance of surviving the next ninety years. I am talking the Human species, not an individual person such as you or me. A 50% chance that the youngest human beings on the planet now may see it’s slow painful death, and know that we, the generations that came before, couldn’t be bothered to stop it because thinking about it was inconvenient.
This may sound a bit out there. It may sound a bit psychotic. It may sound like it was some conspiracy theory that just came out of the blue. However, scientists have been screaming this at the top of their lungs for almost a century. People with more funds have made sure that we were too distracted to listen.
Any time people talk about how to fix it, big industry screams “It will destroy the economy. Jobs will be lost,” while totally ignoring the fact that creating the infrastructure to generate power without fossil fuels will generate millions of jobs, most of which will never go away. Equipment once installed must be maintained, updated, repaired, and replaced. The best part is that these are jobs that cannot be sent overseas.
A sea change is coming. It is only a matter of time. The human species will at some point see what is coming and change paths. I just hope it is not too late.
There are corporations that see the change coming and are starting to spread out their resources to non-fossil fuel based energy sources. Exxon is investing majorly into green energy. They are spending a lot on solar and wind. They are still however spending massive amounts of money on oil and coal. They are still spending massive amounts of money on politics, protecting their “right” to rape and pillage the environment that they never intend to be held accountable for.
Something needs to change, and it needs to change soon. People need to acknowledge that there is a problem and that we already have possible solutions. Further more they need to stop using the EXCUSE that multiple green energy only companies have gone under. The US Spends hundreds of billions of dollars subsidizing the oil industry, which is so profitable that even without those subsidies they are literally making more than any other industry in the world ever has, but at the same time they throw a few million at green energy and say “Well, I guess they didn’t make it.”