Current Affairs Essay

So why didn't our government institute a national renewable energy program decades ago to facilitate this transition? For the same reason it is not doing it today: The oil, gas, and coal industries, as well as their allies in the automobile business, are convinced it would destroy their monopolies and cut into their profits by billions of dollars each year. And to make sure this doesn't happen, they routinely pay off politicians to ignore renewable energy legislation, postpone higher fuel efficiency standards, and obfuscate the issue of global climate control with the help of their friends in the mainstream news media.

But wouldn't it be more prudent to accept Pascal's Wager and err on the side that global warming is real and a national renewable energy policy is needed now-- not 20 years from now? Of course it would. Only an idiot or an evil person would choose otherwise-- or perhaps an individual who is both an idiot and an evil person.

Now, if we could only wave a magic wand…