Letter: Wind and solar projects won’t fix global warming
Regarding the article “Youth across U.S. file lawsuits on climate change” (TCH, Nov. 3). Eric Hoffer said, “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” But I don’t think that applies here. For sure not.
Get the youth and children involved. Teach them in school about how our past energy use has been a mistake, but if we stop it now, things will be better, i.e., no more droughts, big hurricanes, or floods. Polar bears and glaciers will be saved. This is certainly not a business.
No. Never mind the hundreds of billions funneled annually into wind and solar projects. Never mind that they will triple our cost of electricity by 2030 when fossil fuel is eliminated. Never mind that they work only 25 percent of the day. Not a big deal. We can adjust.
Never mind that after US taxpayers have paid trillions of dollars, by 2030 it will only have decreased the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere 1 percent (4 ppm).
Some would say taking all that money which won’t fix anything would be called a racket. But not me. No. We must do something now. We have to do it for the children.
Craig Brown, Richland
This story was originally published December 1, 2015 at 5:33 PM with the headline "Letter: Wind and solar projects won’t fix global warming."