The Obama Administration has an economic stimulus program that includes a big effort to make all the federal buildings efficient. This is very exciting really, if you find well-insulated buildings exciting, which I do, which I agree, is weird.
But investing in good insulation says "we're staying." Obama is investing like we're gonna live on the planet for a long time.
The Bush years were all about selling the drain pipe's for the scrap metal value of the tin. They were like renters who have just given up on getting the deposit back and didn't like the landlord, anyway.
There is a great economic engine ready to get kick started.
Let's aim the planetary endevor straight onto the mysterious pathway of plantery survival.
Let's try to actually solve the problems instead of leaving the planet a smoldering trashheap in ten years with our children wailing and cursing their fate.
Seriously, we need to dial it in, and it is incredibly exciting that we have leadership that seems poised to do that. To actually deal head on with environmental problems, to actually address the climate crisis, to start facing the ecological truth.
It seems like a good idea. Invest to save the planet and as a by product, the economy will go up. Even if it doesn't, we'll have saved the planet. It seems like a big win-win, no matter what happens. Thank goodness we had an economic crisis when we did to soften up the dogmatism of the freemarket economists.
May the truth and good design win.
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