One Pilgrim's Wish for Earth
President G.W. Bush delegated to those he held accountable for areas of responsibility. That is a hallmark trait of any good executive. This case is no different. The original letter and the original copy of this speech, were directed by the White House to the Environmental Protection Agency and below is their response to that proposal. It is what it is and anyone interested in pressing these issues will need to recognize the penetration these notions have into the economy and how we have collectively and globally organized society to deal with them. There is no greater agenda here than trying to find a way to satisfy civilization's thirst for energy in a sustainable and enduring manner. I can hear the voices of the paranoid being stoked by the entrenched 'status quo' now. At some point we have to collectively be smart enough to penetrate entrenched rhetoric and seek higher ground for all the right reasons.
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The author would argue that this response fundamentally ignored the point of the speech. It didn't "miss the point", because those are smart people. They ignored the point because it was politically expedient to do so. It should be noted that there is no single "silver bullet" here. The premise posited by the manuscript has a duplicitous objective of satisfying energy needs, creating jobs, improving GDP position, and at the same time, quite simultaneously, of improving the condition of the biosphere. It should be noted too, that the author used the word biosphere and not atmosphere.
All too often, deniers want to claim these issues are sequenced simply for argument's sake. Ignorant of the actual chronology, they have ignored that "Climate Change" has always been the overarching topic, with Global Warming and Ocean Acidification as peer challenges for us to face. The above response from the EPA completely ignores ocean acidification. Why? Because it's demonstrable, is the only answer we can give.
As you sit here today, reading this greater than 22% of the shallow water coral reefs around the world are already dead. We may never know the impact to deep water corals.
The answer is not to stop drilling. The answer is no single "silver bullet". The answer is to recognize that our biosphere is the only home we have. The answer comes from a decades old cartoon opossum from the newspaper comics, named Pogo; who said "we have met the enemy and he is us."
There is a solution and it will work. We can create an enduring, sustainable infrastructure that will deliver the global energy required by civilization and it will empower humanity to do things beyond the imaginations of the entrenched pundits.
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