Al Gore States the Obvious
by Shervin Saedinia
Honestly, I am ambivalent about Al Gore. I saw An Inconvenient Truth and it didn’t really affect me because I knew most of that stuff already. Didn’t you? Yeah, you did.
But some of the things he said at San Rafael’s Dominican University are actually less obvious:
- Ethanol doesn’t really work. Seems like a waste of time on R&D to me, but that leads to the next point ...
- Electric cars are basically the future of the U.S. car industry, so automobile companies should stop wasting our time “experimenting” on hybrids, hydrogen-cell, or liquid-nitrogen-powered cars. If we can make electric cars, why don’t we just work on perfecting them? Besides, I sure as hell don’t want to drive one of those ugly hybrids if I can get a snazzy electric car.
- It’s going to be expensive, but we can actually use technology to take carbon out of the air and put it into soil. It makes soil more fertile, and since population always increases it makes sense to at try to capitalize on the fact that there’ll always be more mouths to feed. Fertilizing soil means more produce, and those sales might be able to pay for carbon capture technology. It’s a no-brainer, if you ask me: less carbon, more food. Sign me up, I’m in.
Then Gore touched on the way we think as a society, and how our political system is basically corrupt. No one is willing to take a strong stance or go against major corporations that have a lot of clout when it comes to environmental issues. Okay, I get the point. If we haven’t figured that out by now, we probably never will.
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