This book was published in the year 2012. On page 26 the author writes that six billion people occupied the planet. As I write this just six years later in 2018 some seven and a half billion people compete for water, food, shelter and safety. UN estimates that by mid-century nine billion will be the trajected number. How will all this fit into the authors paradigm referred to perhaps cynically as Environmental Utopia.
America will need more homes, more cars, more industry, and more energy. Half of all our nation's electricity is provided by coal; it also is the largest producer of CO2. No new coal fired power plants have been built in decades and none are in planning. Both the EPA and environmental groups actively oppose new plants.
What of nuclear power? Too many safety and waste storage issues. Energy production of every kind requires petroleum on some level because all contain plastics. Computers, cell phones, appliances all have plastic components. Electricity is involved somewhere in the production, transportation and usage of these "necessities". Back to plastics that are found everywhere in prosthetics, IV bags, syringes, organ monitors...
Since the Industrial Revolution life expectancy has risen from about thirty-five years to a current level about double that number. Modern medicine practices plays an important role as electricity stands behind X-rays, MRIs, radiation treatments and even a simple temperature check.
Funding for Big Green and related interests involve a large swath of contributors including controversial George Soros' Open Society Institute, the World Wildlife Fund and $5 million from the Alliance for Climate Protection. Active foundations include Turner (Ted Turner), Joyce, Tides and Rockefeller all names the author of Energy Freedom writes are associated with "red on the inside" where environments are deceptively employed to gain power and diminish American sovereignty.
Author Noon writes that the next generation of global leaders will plunder resources intransit to totalitarian control while dictators and oligarchs reflect continued disdain and indifference to the thesis of this book so scholarly presented.
Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.
Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.
Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.
