This month is the 50th anniversary of a directive given by President Lyndon Johnson to the United States Congress to do something about the alarming build-up of radioactive materials and carbon dioxide emissions. Although concerns about radioactive materials appears to be on the back burner due to the enormous costs of the nuclear industry, we still have a president warning Congress about the inevitable costs of global warming due to carbon dioxide emissions.
Congress, for the most part, feels that the answer is more CO2 emissions from the dinosaur age. The smell of cheap gas is a powerful deterrent to any thought given to sustainable energy sources.
Our fracturing fixation is guaranteed to be a temporary one while the wind and the solar radiation keep passing us by. Long after the last belch from the well.
The only lobbying power God’s green earth has is to be a diminished biosphere for the human race to consume and lament. Why we listen to the person in Congress or the person talking to the person in Congress who says hydrocarbons are a good deal is beyond me. It’s a matter of pay me now or pay me later. Without a timely conversion to sustainable energy sources, the costs will be clear.
It’s funny how a guy from Texas had to state the case.
Doug Yohman, East Waterboro
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