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...idea that new technology can get us out of the climate fix that old technology put us in is an attractive one - especially if we can make a buck while doing so. Venture capitalists invested $3 billion in clean tech in 2007, according to Dow Jones VentureSource, and they'd like a nice return. (But at least the VCs are spending money - federal investment in renewable energy research is a paltry $1 billion, or roughly a day of revenue for Exxon Mobil.) But there's no reason that business can't be a major part of the climate change solution...
...flies in their eyes, but as a proud, tranquil and hopeful place, where people lead full, ordinary lives and savor redbush tea amid rising prosperity. Often they manage all this without ever meeting a white man. "The books don't ask, 'What's wrong with Africa? What can we fix?'" says Minghella. "They're about what we can learn from Africa, not what we can teach...
...folly are, of course, American farmers, who win both from high market prices and from subsidies dished out by a Congress desperate to look like it has some kind of solution to rising oil prices. But ethanol represents, on a broader level, the tendency to rush into high profile, fix-all “solutions” before we have fully analyzed the interdependency of all the elements involved. Instead of pursuing those modest, non-fanciful solutions that we have reason to believe might work (like forest management to increase carbon uptake and a carbon tax), we?...
...Hopefully the conditions will be a little more normal,” Watson said. “We only have four more regattas before the national qualifiers, so we’re looking to be disciplined every weekend. We have to do well. We have to fix our problems and move forward...
...that I have never really been able to go back to a normal life. I miss all that animal contact. It opened a door in me that I have not been able to close. I don't know what to do about that. It's like I need a fix almost...