Politics

Senior parliamentarian calls for action, global treaty on climate change

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Pursuing a low-carbon economy is not about denying ourselves opportunities for growth, it is about opening up new opportunities, including new ways of measuring progress and raising public funds. The world will have to go green in the future. [speech by the leader of the UK Liberal Democat party]

Letters to the editor: “Planning, policy, strategy and energy”

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So am I “worshipping big government?” No, I am writing about issues of national survival, and by implication, issues of personal survival. Without an aggressive process of planning, policy, and strategy-making in the field of energy, the United States is in all likelihood destined to decline into what President Reagan once called, in another context, “the dustbin of history.”

The politics of oil: the discourse must change

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The leaders of both political parties are not only headed in the wrong direction with respect to gas prices, but also fundamentally misunderstand the factors behind the current situation at gasoline stations around the US. Governments should be focused on helping us cure our “addiction to oil.” The answer does not lie in lowering gas prices, which will only encourage people to drive more and further waste our valuable resources.

Declaration of energy independence

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When in the course of modern events it becomes necessary for one people to assume greater control of their energy needs through indigenous sources provided by the Creator, a decent respect for humanity impels them to explain the rationale for their decision.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all sources of energy are not created equal, that some are endowed with indisputable flaws, most especially fossil fuels.

National energy conversation getting louder

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Congressman Roscoe Bartlett and consultant Robert Hirsch spoke at a Pentagon-sponsored presentation, “Energy: a Conversation about Our National Addiction” April 24. Bartlett’s message is logical and moral: Don’t try to fulfill rising demand to cope with peak oil via supply solutions because this would mean “more greenhouse gases” and increasing our future vulnerability to a greater supply crunch. Hirsch’s “most optimistic case is an assumed crash program” when people can agree the crisis is finally here.