I really enjoyed the conversation Al Gore and Jon Stewart about economics global warming and sustainable capitalism.
I believe my definition of sustainable capitalism is strong government investment and tax breaks to green technologies and companies. Economically solar panels are brilliant and history has shown technology only gets better. So if we start building houses with solar panels they will provide all of their energy they need in the day and account for growing population and decrease our dependency on foreign oil. Foreign oil is not only unreliable, at best, but it does not stimulate our economy. We waste money on oil when we could use our own sun to power our cars. If we even cut down our oil consumption we could get all of our oil from Canada. Our ally to the north currently provides us with a majority of our oil. Also oil from Canada is cheaper because it doesn't have to be shipped half way around the globe to be consumed.
We need to talk about real solutions now. The employment rate went up from 7.8% to 7.9% this past month and even though it is not a huge hit to our economy we could certainly use an economic boost we could see in green energy. If we do it correctly and not like Slyndra or weather proofing homes. We could have used the Keystone pipeline too because Canadian oil is the only oil this country can buy with a degree of certainty. The key to sustainable capitalism is betting on a future that is sustainable. Betting on the technologies that will become powerful in the future that are not big now but will be soon. Sooner than big energy will have the American Public believe.
