Juan Miranda
04/24/09
3:37 am
On Monday president brought up the green energy issue again after many suspected that it was moving down his political agenda. Obama’s plan consists in investing money, approximately 150 billion dollars in taxpayer money, to assure that at least twenty five percent of the nation is ran on green energy. This will Also create jobs that will at the same time boost the economy. Like Obama states, "By repowering our nation with clean energy, we will create millions of jobs that can't be sent overseas. By harnessing the energy of the sun and wind, we can refuel our nation and end our addiction to oil”. This is is a very ambitious plan but it just might work according to environmental scholars, even though they also agree that it wont be easy. Many argue that this will take severe investments and that Obama cant focus too much in the long run and invest to much money in it, while the present state of the economy is in terrible conditions. Many oppose saying, that it will be too expensive and that it is a bad idea to create jobs by switching energy sources.
I In my opinion this is a great idea, this plan needs to be pushed and put into action as soon as possible, we cant wait any longer, because the economy will only worsen and so will the state of our planet. Like Al Gore said to the Committee of Foreign Affairs, “For years our efforts to address the climate crisis have been undermined by the idea that we must chose between our planet and our way of life, between our moral duty and economic well-being these are false choices," It is time to take action now and not wait until its too late.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/01/30/obama.climate.change/index.html#cnnSTCText
1 comment:
I love the thought of this plan. Obama is thinking about taking a plan and it halping the U.S. in two different ways. We defintley need jobs right now so i think that this can help us have a better opportunity for more jobs that won't go overseas. Also we all need to think green becuase we are eventually going to run out of resources. I mean our landfills are filling up and nobody seems to worry about recycling but people need to start thinking about making the environment better. If people don't change their mind set it just might be too late to try an dmake a change in anything.
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