What it all boils down to is: The bills are coming due. And not just, or even mainly, the bills from a failed Bush presidency, but the bills from 200 years of burning fossil fuel.
NVDL: Bills for polluting, ravaging and heating the planet. Bills for setting up living arrangements for ourselves that have no future. Bills for all the babies and burgers we insist on having.
NVDL: Bills for polluting, ravaging and heating the planet. Bills for setting up living arrangements for ourselves that have no future. Bills for all the babies and burgers we insist on having.
• Massive government investment in green energy. • A stiff cap on carbon, which will help drive the process. Once the president has done all that tough stuff at home, he'll need to do it all over again, globally. Twenty years ago when we started worrying about global warming, we thought we'd have a generation to pay those bills off. But we were wrong — the planet was more finely balanced than we'd realized. The melting Arctic is the call from the repo man.
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