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KENNEDy, JR. d N rchives a a al why, according to the Federal energy And every american will N Regulatory Commission, in the first eventually benefit from the eleven months of 2016 renewable energy cornucopia of economic, political Natio HorsemEN supplied more than 50 percent of newly and health-giving bounties that will installed electrical-generation capacity— accompany a decarbonized nation. surpassing natural gas, nuclear power, there will be no more poisoned air of the coal and oil combined. and water, but instead clean rivers Let’s face facts. the carbon and bountiful oceans, with fish that incumbents are looking at their own are safe to eat. no more exploded imminent apocalypse. and the real mountain ranges. no more crippling Apocalypse savings for solar and wind comes at the oil spills in the gulf of mexico, or back end – zero fuel costs. Unlimited alaska or santa Barbara. we will not long ago, the legendary economist amory lovins showed photons rain down on the earth every day for free. transitioning no longer worry about acid rain me two photos, taken 10 years apart, of the new york City easter to clean fuel only requires that we build the infrastructure to deforesting our purple mountains parade. a 1903 shot looking north from midtown showed Fifth harvest and distribute the photons, and that infrastructure will majesty and sterilizing our blue avenue crowded with a hundred horse-and-buggies and a solitary bless america with a magical promised era of free fuel forever. lakes. no more fretting about automobile. the second, taken in 1913 from a similar vantage The internal-combustion engine is racing toward the same acidified oceans destroying our coral on the same street, depicted a traffic-jam of automobiles and a kind of seismic disruption as the horse and buggy. according to reefs, and causing the collapse of single horse and buggy. calculations by John walker of the Rocky mountain Institute, the global food chains and fisheries. That momentous shift occurred because, over a 13-year current operating cost of an electric car is about one-tenth that of ozone- and particulate-pollution period, Henry Ford had dropped the nominal price of the model-t an internal-combustion engine. and the range and performance won’t sicken and kill millions of our gress by 62 percent. wealthy new yorkers led the transition, and the of eVs now exceed those of traditional gasoline-powered cars. citizens, damage crops and corrode N o remainder of america quickly followed. that’s why the world’s 15 top auto companies all launched new buildings. tyrannical petro-states c Between 1918 and 1929, according to stanford University eV models in 2015. will no longer be able to subjugate rary of B i lecturer tony seba, american car ownership rocketed from their peoples and victimize their l If you believe in free markets, then the day of the internal he eight percent of americans to 80 percent – because Dupont combustion engine is over. the markets have already seen the neighbors. and there will be an end t to oil wars. and general motors had devised a financial innovation called future. the top 50 coal companies are now either in Chapter the two photos above, of the new york city easter parade, were taken 10 years apart. a 1903 “car loans,” which soon accounted for three quarters of auto 11 bankruptcy or on the brink of it. the largest three—arch, While this portrait of the future shot looking north from midtown showed fifth avenue crowded with a hundred horse- purchases. the buggy manufacturers never saw it coming. Consol and peabody—have lost 80 percent of their value over is enticing to most americans and-buggies and a solitary automobile. the second, taken in 1913 from a similar vantage on the same street, depicted a traffic-jam of automobiles and a single horse and buggy. like the Compare that platform for disruption to marketing in today’s the last two years. observing this landscape, lovins remarked and consistent with the historical buggy makers of that earlier age, the carbon-based industries of today are looking at their solar industry. over the past five years, photovoltaic-module to me, “the meteor has hit. the dinosaurs are doomed. It’s just idealism of an exemplary nation, it own imminent collapse. prices have dropped 80 percent, and analogous home-solar- that some of them are still walking around causing trouble.” is a fearful nightmare for a certain financing innovations have spread like wildfire. three quarters Amid these rich indices of imminent change, america, prior segment of our population, which of California’s rooftop solar installations – including the system to the 2016 election, was on the verge of leading the global is willing to sacrifice the planet and to mount all-out war to these are forces of ignorance and greed that are determined to liquidate atop my own home – have been innovatively financed, with no transformation away from destructive reliance on the filthy, prevent the realization of that new world. we are engaged, as the natural riches of our planet for cash. Russell makes no bones money down. nRg solar leased me a rooftop array with zero cost poisonous, addictive, warmongering fuels from hell to a sunny abraham lincoln declared, “in a great civil war,” a successor about the fact that their moral compass is pointed straight at hell.l ike to myself and guaranteed a 60 percent drop in my energy bills for new age of innovation and entrepreneurship, of abundant and to the cataclysm of the 1860s that our country endured to end the Horsemen in the Book of Revelation, their actions are propelling 20 years. who wouldn’t take that deal? dignified jobs, of a democratized energy system and widespread an archaic and immoral energy-system dependent on enslaved humanity toward a dystopian nightmare. leading the charge are And the costs continue to drop every day. the price of utility- wealth-creation, powered by the clean, green, healthy, wholesome human labor. the entrenched interests who profited from that David and Charles Koch, whose industries are a template of “disaster scale solar plants has also plummeted dramatically, to around a and patriotic fuels from heaven. But the present administration system were willing to sacrifice our country and more than capitalism,” whose corporate headquarters are the command-center of billion dollars a gigawatt (compared to three-to-five billion per is doing all it can to pull us back from that position. half-a-million lives to maintain their power and profits.
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