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Environment & Energy

caraher

(6,278 posts) Sat Feb 22, 2014, 02:00 PM Feb 2014

A quote from 1931...

We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

Attributed to Thomas Edison

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A quote from 1931... (Original Post) caraher Feb 2014 OP

More along these lines: johnp3907 Feb 2014 #1

Great article LiberalEsto Feb 2014 #2

It would seem like 80+ years would have been plenty of time for a species as magnificent as ours... stuntcat Feb 2014 #3

johnp3907

(3,730 posts)

1. More along these lines:

Reply to caraher (Original post)

Sat Feb 22, 2014, 02:07 PM

Feb 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/magazine/03wwln-essay-t.html

LiberalEsto

(22,845 posts)

2. Great article

Reply to johnp3907 (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 22, 2014, 03:53 PM

Feb 2014

Thanks for posting the link

stuntcat

(12,022 posts)

3. It would seem like 80+ years would have been plenty of time for a species as magnificent as ours...

Reply to caraher (Original post)

Sat Feb 22, 2014, 09:33 PM

Feb 2014

plenty of time for a species as Magnificent, nearly godlike, as ours to do whatever we needed to do to save ourselves! There were clear warnings, back then and growing ever since.
No matter what those dicks say about "they said GLOBAL COOLING in the 70's", I have articles from the 70's saying the same things they're saying right fucking now.

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