The Big Misconception About Clean Energy

Dear Cleo. THANK YOU! This is the message I've been preaching for the last couple of years. The 'Green movement' is pushing the idea of the 'least bad' future, where we prevent some animlas from going extinct, but still lose most of them, where wilderness is protected in pockets, but we lose most of it. We need to paint a vision of a new Garden of Eden we can leave our grandchildren (and it's OK to have them.). Vertical farming, cultured meat, precision fermentation would allow us to rewild about 90% of currently farmed land, but it will take a LOT of energy to do so. One point, I think you failed to make, is why we are in this mental straitjacket, of survival meaning a hair-shirted, furure of paucity and sacrifice, is that billions have been spent by the Fossil-Fuel industry in pushing the 'Carbon-Footprint' model, where we tinker around the edges of energy use, at great personal cost to those who care enough to do it. BRITISH-PETROLEUM is the reason you are aware of the concept of a CARBON-FOOTPRINT!!! You think they pushed this to sell less of their product. One change I'd recommend we all make now, is reducing meat consumption (won't cost you a penny. In fact it will save you money), don't buy a fossil-fuel vehicle less than three years old and if/when you can buy an EV do so. Sure if you can reduce your fossil fuel consumption by insulating your home, go for it, but demand renewable electricity to warm/cool your home and  mostly VOTE GREEN AND PROTEST. Your presence at a Global Warming Protest is worth fifty votes.  If you (Cleo and other media producers) don't tackle the pernicious lobbying and advertising of the Fossil Fuel companies, peple won't understand why their thinking has been twisted so badly. Build, build, build renewable energy generating capacity: honestly, someone will find a use for that spare energy at times of peak production. See 'Super-Power'. A water desalination plant doesn't have to run 24/7, nor does a Hydrolyser plant producing Green Hydrogen, but offer them free energy when we have it to spare, they'll use it. IT'S NOT THAT HARD. Biden, you want to win in 2024, declate the climate emergency an 'Energency' and use your presidential powers to spend accordingly. 'Panel-Baby-Panel'.