100 percent renewables
What a time it has been!
I haven’t been able to blog as much as I have wanted lately, due to a workload that is endless; being involved with environmental restoration has its advantages as you can never run out of work. We indeed have thousands of years of work ahead!
But firstly, Barack Obama - the US President Elect. What an emotional victory - new fresh energy…badly needed. After 200 years, we are seeing a President who belongs indirectly to a rainbow of countries, Indonesia, Kenya and the USA. What effect this will have on his foreign policies and onto the world at large is too early to say, but it provides the freedom to dream; a new era of peace, a vision for renewable energy, end to the war on terror; and a common purpose for mankind to solve the climate crisis creating a green economy.
Yes dreams, but there is a new drive towards this vision. Al Gore has asked Obama to have the US run on renewable energy within 10 years:
“We can do that,” Al Gore said during the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco last Friday. “The declaration from President [John F] Kennedy that we would land a man on the moon and bring him back safely was thought by many to be impossible.”
Obama has promised to invest $150bn (£96bn) in renewables and cutting carbon emissions. So could the US be brought back to the negotiating table when it comes to the environment? Perhaps the climate meeting in Copenhagen 2009 could see a revival in a shared vision and a new internationalism?
We live in the human ecosystem today and we will have to play a part in the restoration of this ecosystem. Dr. Iain Stewart in his film “Earth” said that mankind is changing the geological structures of the planet, as strong as natural forces - we have the power to do all that - now its time to show that we have the same power to restore as we have to destroy.