http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/1/6/193649/7888/#12
Projections
Those pessimistic projections tend to move us all closer to ... the ultimate pessimism. Death.
Human energy is better invested in hopeless causes, like this green energy revolution, than in really hopeless causes, like living out self fullfilling disasters, one oil war, climate shift, and terror attack after another.
Break the cycle.
Was the idea of producing millions of ships, planes, aircraft, tanks, trucks, guns ...and the atom bomb (talk about looking impossible!!) in a few short years, to win WW 2, impossible?
We are in a downward spiral, a cold/hot war over energy. And there are extra WMDs out there that anyone can buy for the right price.
This production of green energy revolutionary "war" machines needs to be approached as WW 2 war production was. This is global survival at stake, not just national.
Build the millions of solar panels and geothermal heat pumps, like duuhbya has at his ranch, and millions of wind machines from home size all the way to 1000 foot industrial scale. And the millions of electric cars, buses, trucks, trains, and yes even aircraft.
We can win these series of neverending cycles of oil war with a massive war production effort.
No more need for oil, no more oil wars and climate disaster.
