Pollywogs!

I just got done watching this TV show aired by the History Channel, Last Days on Earth…jesus, how depressing.

To know that we live at the tipping point, and that we didn't do more…or that we didn't act sooner, or that we took so long to accept the truth of the problem.

I always hope that lemonade can be made from these lemons, and that injustice, lies and the oppression of everyone else by the rich and powerful slowly and continuously awakens people to the fact that the 99% of the Government and Big Business don't give a flying fuck about you, don't respect you, and will only take action (even if it costs them just 10% more than normal to build a new power plant) at the absolute last moment possible, while spreading FUD to obscure the truth as long as they can.

I'd type the word 'over and over and over and over and over' about three hundred times and link each one to a different example, but I think your memory is longer than three days…I'll allow you to stretch that mental muscle a little bit. 

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I posted this little rant to the comments section of a link at Reddit.com:

This is probably among most important articles that could be posted to Reddit. Climate change is NOW, and whether or not they are the perfect steps we need to take action NOW.

http://www.discover.com/issues/dec-06/features/clean-coal-technology/

We are GOING to run into an energy crisis.  We are GOING to run into a climate change crisis (hell, we're already well down that road).  We are GOING to have to make decisions about what stopgaps we're going to take as we transition between What Has Come Before to What The Future Holds.

China and the US are going to need tremendous amounts of energy.  I don't like coal strip mines (living in Pennsylvania, I've seen my fair share of day fucking glo orange streams, devoid of life, poisoned for decades by King Coal).   I don't particularly care for the idea of building huge amounts of nuclear power all over the world.

I am absolutely enamored with the idea of mass local generation.  Solar fucking panels on every rooftop.  Even if it only reduced demand by 25 or 50%…that is 25 or 50%!!!

But, guess who's profits take a cut with that logical answer to our problems?  Yep, Southern Company, PPL, your local power supplier, etc etc.  Big Business who you KNOW aren't going to like consumers ripping dollars out of their pockets.

Coal isn't the answer.  But I sure as HELL know that if they are going to build a conventional plant or an IGCC plant…I want the one that releases practically no pollution during electric generation.  Then we can go back and look at reducing coal consumption and furthering REAL solutions.

And ended up submitting my first URL to Reddit.