Originally posted by maurizio13:
Actually there are lots of energy alternatives which are environmentally friendly, I wonder why we keep relying on fuels that would cause detriment to the environment.
In Jared Diamond's book Collapse, he talks about mining companies extracting metals in Montana and in the process produced alot of toxic byproducts. The company does not have a legal liability to clean up the toxic waste, as a result the toxic waste seep into the soil causing future environmental problems. A company's sole interest is only to make money, not to be accountable to the general public. Therefore laws have to be made to make companies like these accountable for their actions, so that all the companies are required to clean up, instead of only those socially responsible companies cleaning up and in the process reducing their profit margin threatening their own survival.
Carbon emissions do not affect us directly, so we as consumers do not have an active interest to monitor those transgressors. Government has the power and authority, that is if they can see the dire need to control greenhouse gases now.
But from a country to country perspective, control of burning fossil fuels will not go down too well with countries like China and India, when they are just at the initial phase of economic development. Putting a cap on their energy needs will sap alot of their productive capacity.
The only way is to advance developments into other forms of clean energy alternatives, through these technological developments, reduce the price of energy generation to that of fossil fuels. So that countries like India and China can convert to these cheaper alternative energy sources.
Greed will destroy humanity.
Our impending destruction is a result of our past successes.
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