Like with many things in life when it comes down to it, its all about the money. Ultimately switching to alternative energy is a business, someone is going to profit from the product and the consumer is going to spend money on the product. In this article gives a small insight of how alternative energy should be available to the consumer with reasonable circumstances. Daniel Kammen World Bank clean energy chief expresses this idea by stating, "We need to make a clean energy transition and we need to do it in a way that is inclusive and supportive of the poor, and not for the wealthy first and the poor second.” One of the major areas we need to attack to reduce our green house gases is enforcing not just strict laws but they also have to be appealing to the companies. We often find a obstruction on the road to being carbon free because we enforce laws that are sometimes to much for companies to afford, Han Seung-soo, a former U.N. special envoy on climate change, expresses this idea by saying, “I do not, frankly speaking, expect too much from the COP-16 (conference of parties next month) in Cancun, because opinions are so divided and an agreement has not been made between major carbon emitters.”
We sometimes say that we can’t afford to do certain things but at the same time we got ask ourselves what will be the consequences if don’t afford it now and wait till it is to late. For example, we are risking losing our outer bank due to the risk of rising ocean levels, losing a lot of precious land. Should we wait till this happens and say we couldn’t afford doing anything about it? When it comes down to it in order to help the situation there is going to be a sacrifice now but it won’t be greater if we were to wait to the problem get bigger.
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