WHY A NEW ENERGY MOVEMENT?
Following are key points about the need for a grassroots citizens’ push for supporting research and development of new clean energy systems: 1 Time urgency. Truly clean low-cost abundant-energy solutions need to quickly be commercialized, because the way we deal with energy resources today is harming our world via: a) Environmental degradation (oil spills, unhealthy air, ocean acidification, uranium/coal mining, rad-waste, unnatural atmospheric gases increasing etc); b) The scarcity-mentality which results in oil wars and vicious competition; c) Pessimism – threats of economic power-down constrict people with fear; and d) The fact that most national energy policies are steaming ahead in the wrong direction, fueled by huge piles of taxpayers’ money and oiled by well-funded public relations propaganda, toward agribusiness that grows genetically modified products for biofuels instead of food, megaproject centralized hydrogen and hydro infrastructures, hot fusion (which is dirty) research
