"A Wartime Mobilization" by Lester R. Brown

A WARTIME MOBILIZATION

http://www.earthpolicy.org/Books/Seg/PB3ch13_ss1.htm

I keep hearing talks that our economy has to move in a different direction if we are going to make any progress with sustainable development and climate control.

Lester Brown makes a very solid point - that the government needs to place incentives and disincentives so that people will be forced to take action and work towards reducing carbon emissions, and move in the direction of renewable energy instead of dirty brown energy.

Since our generation will not necessarily feel the negatives of our consumption, its hard to force the public to choose a (usually more expensive) and complex option when it comes to hybrid cars, buying green energy from renewable sources, and reducing carbon emissions both on a local level, and lobbying for it at a more national and even international level.

Hopefully, our government will choose to act quickly and rebuild America's economy while changing the way the people react to climate, sustainable development, and the new revolution of green.

It's time for a new America - one that reinvents itself with the changing times.