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Former Vice President Al Gore called for a "man on the moon" effort to switch all of the United States' electricity production to wind, solar and other carbon-free sources within 10 years.

He said this goal would solve global warming as well as economic and natural security crises caused by dependence on fossil fuels.

"The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels," Mr Gore told a packed auditorium in Washington's historic Constitution Hall.

"When you connect the dots, it turns out that the real solutions to the climate crisis are the very same measures needed to renew our economy and escape the trap of ever-rising energy prices."

[Credit: AP; Photo: Business Week]
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3 responses // Gore urges drive for carbon-free energy

  • just when you thought gore couldn't get any cooler he does
    jakerohde
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    If all fossil fuels and their derivatives, as well as trees for paper and construction, were banned in order to save the planet, reverse the Greenhouse Effect and stop deforestation; then there is only one known annually renewable natural resource that is capable of providing the overall majority of the world's paper and textiles; meet all of the world's transportation, industrial and home energy needs, while simultaneously reducing pollution, rebuilding the soil and cleaning the atmosphere all at the same time and that substance is the same one that has done it before . . . CANNABIS HEMP!

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  • I think that having a dependence on tree based products is a good thing, and if we were to end the dependence the consequences could potentially be bad. If trees weren't valuable then nations would have no visible incentive to keep them, and would possibly opt to fell the forests to create more living space. I think the answer regarding trees is probably more along the lines of farming / quotas, along with protected areas too. Obviously there's also a difference when it comes to species: mahogany and oak have much longer timespans til maturity than, say, spruce or something.

    Not that this has anything to do with carbon. In regard to that, I think the only long-term viable energy solutions are wind, solar and wave. Everyone needs to realise that our planet's only energy source is the sun and we need to focus all our efforts on harnessing as much of that as possible. (Well, there's a hell of a lot of it, so perhaps we don't need it all, but that's the maximum we can use!)
    constantdisregard

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