jts1882
Dean Richards
I also happen to care about the environment. Drill, baby, drill is the mantra of the neocons, but I've already laid down my thoughts on why I think it's selfish of them to only think about the present, never mind all the environmental disasters caused by oil spills in the open waters.
When glaciers melt, it exposes more land that the oil companies can drill into. Don't you think that maybe they have a stake in this whole climate-change thing? And the assholes that run those companies don't care about what happens 100 years from now. They're only interested in making a dollar now. This is the mentality that is crippling our country: the failure to see our long-term course, mistaking the trees for the forest.
In a global economy, the more developed economies need to move towards higher technology industries, while low tech industries move to developing economies.
The need to develop green technologies was a golden opportunity. Even Romney recognised this as Governor of Massachusetts where he gave some state subsidies to a solar outfit (one that later went bankrupt, what irony). The Clinton and Bush administrations wasted this opportunity to take the lead, something the US has been so successful in computing and biotechnology. Bush was particularly bad with some destructive environmental policies, but Gore, someone who claimed to understand the need for environmental policies did nothing in his eight years in the White House when he had a pulpit.