Global Warming Can Save Us All…Kind Of…
Hey, you know what could really help this financial mess we’re in? Spending lots and lots of government money on climate change!
“Skyrocketing energy prices and the financial crisis have been a wake-up call that something’s got to change,” said Cathy Zoi, chief executive officer of the Alliance for Climate Protection, which is chaired by former Vice President Al Gore.
“My very strong belief is that we need to reorient our investments toward this transition to a clean energy economy, and it will be the engine of growth for getting us out of the doldrums that we’ve gotten in right now,” Zoi told the Reuters Global Environment Summit this week.
The reorientation must include U.S. limits on emissions of climate-warming carbon in the United States, she said: “Unless we take action at home, we’re not going to be able to have much influence in the international arena about what gets done.”
Yeah, perfect. Because what financial experts around the world are really worried about is how much cash Al Gore can extort from the federal government by ginning up a panic over a problem that he is mostly responsible for hyping and pushing down our throats and that’s making him ginormous piles of money.
It’s a shame that people who believe that government spending is a sustainable “engine of growth” for our economy are in a position to have such influence on our society. In a better world, they’d be wearing dunce caps and sitting on fence posts on the edge of town.
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