Portugal has just completed a 107 hour run of supplying ALL its energy needs by renewable sources: wind, solar and hydroelectric. On only one day, May 15th, Germany did the same. Way to go!
What Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth have been telling us for years has now been shown to be the real deal. The less-than-green energy suppliers must be spitting feathers at the news. The oil producers, coal owners and nuclear power supporters must be shitting themselves at the prospect of going out of business, if not now, then soon..
Meanwhile, here at home in this enlightened country of ours, manufacturers of wind farms are experiencing ever more draconian obstacles to their plans, while solar power languishes as some fringe activity carried out only by addled hippies. And just today there are plans afoot to re-start the ailing fracking industry, doubtless with healthy government subsidies.
The vested interests here will, I believe, some day be seen as ecological criminals. Our descendants will scratch their heads in wonder at our earth-wrecking, air-poisoning activities and say to themselves: What were our grandparents thinking? Why did they ignore the evidence and continue to encourage everyone to engage in energy production that depleted the Earth of its precious resources and accelerate global warming?
Let's not leave it to our grandchildren to sort this out. Let's do it ourselves. Right now. Portugal has shown us the way. Now it's time for the world to follow suit.
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