Back In The Mid-1970s, We Adopted Some

The Need To Help Spread Democracy And The Ability To Do That Will Be Much Greater If We Break This Addiction To Oil, Which Gives The Oil Princes And Sultans The Power In The Mideast.

Air Is One We Hold In Common; It Has A Limited Carrying Capacity For Pollutants And That's Being Used Up By Those Who Pollute The Atmosphere. So We Have To Stop That Externality. We Would Never Allow A Utility To Put Their Coal Slag In A Dump Truck And Back It Up To The City Park And Dump It In Unlimited Amounts For Free. But That Is Exactly What We Do With Carbon Dioxide And Methane.

Back In The Mid-1970s, We Adopted Some Fairly Ambitious Goals To Improve Efficiency Of Our Cars. What Did We Get? We Got A Tremendous Boost In Efficiency.

We’re The First Generation To Feel The Impact Of Climate Change And The Last Generation That Can Do Something About It.'

We Have Had A Loss In Manufacturing Base And A Loss Of Some Of Our Productive Capability That Can Be Filled With The Green-collar Jobs Of Tomorrow. But It Will Only Happen If We Recognize The Scale And Scope Of Both The Challenge And The Opportunity.