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Water, not oil, is the most precious fluid in our lives, the substance from which all life on the earth has sprung and continues to depend. If we run short of oil and other fossil fuels, we can use alternative energy sources. If we have no clean, drinkable water, we are doomed. As the 6 billion passengers aboard Spaceship Earth enter a complex new century, few issues are as fundamental as water. We are falling far short of the most basic humanitarian goals: sufficient and affordable clean water, food and energy for everyone. "I cannot bear to watch the nations...
...could call it by its twenty-dollar title, or you could just call it the Fossil Fuel Club. Either way, it meets most Wednesday mornings in the Vice President's ornate Ceremonial Room. Around the conference table sits a group that includes Dick Cheney and Commerce Secretary Don Evans, both oilmen; Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who chaired the electricity-guzzling aluminum maker Alcoa; and Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, the former Michigan Senator who attracted wads of campaign cash from energy companies in a losing re-election effort...
...Cheney told TIME. His group meets in secret - much to the chagrin of Democrats, who were attacked by the opposition when Hillary Clinton's infamous health-care task force operated behind closed doors. Hillary tried in vain to sort the winners from the losers in health care. In the Fossil Fuel Club, everyone's a winner...
...environmentalism. Why stop at Ezekiel 36: 5--God lambastes all Edom for plundering his land--when they could actually persuade the faithful to stop their plundering and buy electricity from nonpolluting sources? In this way, they could ease their conscience and help limit the damage done by fossil-fuel-powered plants, which produce about 40% of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, the gas most responsible for raising the planet's temperature...
...Maine Interfaith P&L, Oregon Interfaith P&L and New Jersey's Partnership for Environmental Quality. They see an ideological advantage to renewables, which gives them their selling point. With new technology, green power is cheaper than ever, but overall it remains slightly more costly than that produced by fossil fuels--"about a pizza a month," says David Weisman, who leads a "green team" at the West Essex, N.J., synagogue Agudath Israel...