fossil-fuels

After more than two decades of relatively safe operations and with public demands growing for clean, carbon-free power plants, many nations, including the United States, seemed ready to embrace nuclear energy as a clean, safe and efficient alternative to fossil-fuels.

After Fukushima, Nations Put Nuke Plant Development On Hold 2011

This was during his White House speech on the Gulf Oil Spill when -- unlike JFK pledging we would be on the moon by 1970 -- he failed to set any dates or deadlines for cutting our dependence on fossil-fuels, say even a modest 20 percent by 2020.

David Helvarg: A Tale of Two Presidents David Helvarg 2010

While this kind of rational policy decision-making sometimes works, it becomes much harder to enact when the problems are much larger and complex like how to wean the world off fossil-fuels when the largest and richest industrial combines in human history are fossil-fuel companies whose annual profits make Hosni Mubarak's family seem middle-class.

David Helvarg: Fish Don't Rebel (So We Should) David Helvarg 2011

This was during his White House speech on the Gulf Oil Spill when -- unlike JFK pledging we would be on the moon by 1970 -- he failed to set any dates or deadlines for cutting our dependence on fossil-fuels, say even a modest 20 percent by 2020.

David Helvarg: A Tale of Two Presidents David Helvarg 2010

This was during his White House speech on the Gulf Oil Spill when -- unlike JFK pledging we would be on the moon by 1970 -- he failed to set any dates or deadlines for cutting our dependence on fossil-fuels, say even a modest 20 percent by 2020.

David Helvarg: A Tale of Two Presidents David Helvarg 2010

But we also must acknowledge that those that consume fossil-fuels have some responsibility for producing them as well.

Steven Cohen: Can Andrew Cuomo Meet the Leadership Challenge of Hydrofracking Policy? Steven Cohen 2011

Alternatively, if we burn away with oil and the other fossil-fuels, greenhouse-related impacts can wipe out improvements in prosperity, as Russian fires and Pakistani floods have shown all too clearly this summer.

Jeremy Leggett: The Singular Genius of a Simple Solar Lantern Jeremy Leggett 2010

While this kind of rational policy decision-making sometimes works, it becomes much harder to enact when the problems are much larger and complex like how to wean the world off fossil-fuels when the largest and richest industrial combines in human history are fossil-fuel companies whose annual profits make Hosni Mubarak's family seem middle-class.

David Helvarg: Fish Don't Rebel (So We Should) David Helvarg 2011

This was during his White House speech on the Gulf Oil Spill when -- unlike JFK pledging we would be on the moon by 1970 -- he failed to set any dates or deadlines for cutting our dependence on fossil-fuels, say even a modest 20 percent by 2020.

David Helvarg: A Tale of Two Presidents David Helvarg 2010

If this correct, we are all in for a very nasty shock if we can't phase-out fossil-fuels, before peak fossil-energy occurs.

They Got Nothin' EliRabett 2010