It sure seems like a lot of the green rhetoric we hear these days is barking up the wrong tree. Nobody should be against ways to improve and preserve the environment, but so many of the proposals we hear about are based more on sounds bites than on substance. We don’t know the cost of oil in five years, we don’t know which renewable power generation will emerge, and we surely don’t know if or when man-made carbon emissions are going to make islands start disappearing.
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