YES! - But first we the people need to kick the oil barons out of the halls of government.
37%
NO! - The fossil fuel industry will never allow the necessary changes, because it would mean their extinction.
63%
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For years, every time we've tried to launch a campaign to educate the public about the leading cause of everything from potentially catastrophic climate change to lung disease, govt deflects the public's attention by launching another round of attacks on the few who smoke tobacco. The public falls for it every time. Dealing with the actual crises that face us would require some big changes to dramatically reduce our burning of fossil fuels. That would mean increasing public transportation while imposing serious disincentives on private ownership of motor vehicles. Americans won't go along with that, and they are eager to allow govt to deflect public attention from this issue.
It's too bad Ronald Reagan didn't follow up on what Jimmy Carter started. Think where we would be now instead of contemplating massive die offs and infrastructure failures.
Note:
http://www.petrostrategies.org/Links/Worlds_Largest_Oil_and_Gas_Companie...
We all know - and seem to be resigned to the fact - that sea levels will rise. But the media fails to mention that life on earth can NOT persist without plenty of ice. Ice is critical to earth being able to provide a life sustaining habitat.
The pending economic collapse caused by our greedy elite will significantly reduce the demand for fossil fuels. After this collapse we can change the concept of money by spending it into existence rather than loaning it into existence. Then we can spend on all the needed infrastructure projects to transform our transportation, energy, housing, manufacturing, and agriculture systems. The concept of money must change before we can truly address climate change. As it is now we must continually grow our economy to pay for interest on debt but the planet we live on is finite. We cannot grow our way out of our problems any longer! Fundamental change is needed this time around.