How to Sustain Our Existance....

I think that this was a reasonably good speech. I do have a bone to pick with some things, however. Green energies and energies that save us money are both GOOD things. Much better than what we have now. But I think that we are missing something. If we could generate all the energy we need today by using green energy, I feel like everything would be covered by solar panels, every river would be dammed (or damned), and every open field would have windmills on it. We need an energy plan to reduce our energy. Technologies do indeed play an important role. But we as a society need to reduce our consumption of our energy. We can't leave our lights on just because they are compact florescent. We can't run the heater all day because our power is wind generated. We need to change our behaviors. Although windmills are a good way of generating clean energy, we still need to use land and invade habitats. Soon we will be fighting with ExxonWind to see if put windmills in ANWR. Green technologies are not THE solution, but rather a mere part of the solution. The biggest change needs to happen within us all and therefore, within society.

That being said, we can all benefit from green energies. It is very important for us as a community to support green energies and try to move away from dirty petro and nuclear energies to rally against global climate change.