Stimulating Green Energy

摘要

Can we stimulate the economy and create a sound green-energy policy at the same time? Of course. In fact, it's not possible to have a sustained economic recovery that isn't green.rnOur entire economic system is unsustainable. It's a global Ponzi scheme: investors (i.e., current generations) are paying themselves (i.e., you and me) by taking from future generations. To perpetuate the high returns that the rich countries in particular have been achieving in recent decades, we have been taking an ever greater amount of non-renewable energy resources, especially hydrocarbons; natural capital such as fresh water, arable land, forests, and fisheries; and the most important nonrenew-able natural capital of all: a livable climate.