The Renewable Rather than Roaring Twenties: A Sustainability Decade

With the Trump Administration trying to drive science out of environmental decision making and climate change out of environmental impact statements, it is easy to be pessimistic about our ability to preserve our planet. Fires from Australia to California, droughts and floods and the devastating impact of extreme weather only serves to increase our sense of fear and foreboding. People willfully resisting the facts of a planet under stress are not only running our country but also leading Brazil, Australia and many others. Despite all of this, I remain optimistic and believe that over the next decade we will make visible progress in addressing a series of interconnected environmental problems ranging from climate change to the loss of biodiversity to the poisoning of our planet’s ecology...

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Ken Notes: I like the ideas of the renewable twenties. I also love the idea of educating everyone on the NEW Economics of renewable energy, not to mention the strides made in cleaning up the environment.

While many will chastise me for this statement, One of the reasons the current administration has reversed environmental policy is that they were being told that current policy was getting in the way of new and cleaner projects, and to some degree the proponents of this were correct. When a new company wanted to locate in an older industrial section of Milwaukee on a site they agreed to clean up and found that it was easier to just locate outside the city because of environmental policy we have to sit down and look at that policy.

We can have the Roaring Renewable Twenties but not if we refuse to work together...