Oh, I'm sorry. Turns out our navigator was holding the map upside down and a gorilla with a kidney infection urinated all over the bit that shows the (moral) compass. I mean, digging up the National Parks seems like a good idea...."frack off," am I right? But at least we're on a soggy, smelly path (quite literally if you're one of the unfortunate flooded), which is of course, better than no path at all.
I mean, some people are trying at least trying to get us on track to a sustainable lifestyle, and doing pretty damn well - or maybe my judgement is clouded, since next to the Conservative party a dog taking a dump on a daffodil to try and make it grow faster looks like a pioneer in Green policy.
What I find truly shameful, is that for all a happy stereotype's worth of us Britishy Britons slam America for being a devolved version of the United Kingdom (that pro-gun policy though, I mean, ease up on the testosterone or you'll end up overdue a castration after the testicles gargantuan themselves and overtake the brain), America's own Mark Jacobson has developed the most ingenious road map for the United States that has been thought capable of eliminating the U.S dependency on fossil fuels.
Who would have thought that making a pre-existing infrastructure 10x more efficient would be a faster, more beneficial and straight up valid way of straightening out the mess of global warming that's smeared its way across the planet like a fresh cow pat over a pair of Jimmy Choo's?
The feat is a leap in to the dark, and as has been the way with many a sensible scientist, he has met his fair share of rebuttals (but at least he's not been imprisoned, dishonoured, burned at the stake or clobbered to death by Newtonian apples - Newtonian apples of course, simply being all of the apples).
What the plan needs:
- 78, 000, 000 rooftop solar systems
- 49,000 commercial solar plants
- 156,000 offshore wind turbines
I really don't know why all new buildings in construction currently aren't forced to simply install solar panels all across them. Easy game. Easy energy. The artistic impression of architect Vincent Callebaut's idea for a sustainable Paris is stunning for instance. A positive mecca of green empowerment!
Welch (2016) in the National Geographic rated Jacobson's plan as on par with other "ambitious endeavours" such as the nuclear bomb and military WWII arsenal. I mean. Perhaps not the most attractive comparisons to pull when trying to sell such a grandiose idea to a wavering, very American public, it can't be denied those other "ambitious endeavours" weren't successful. And it does seem quite unlikely all the implanted green technology would spontaneously, simultaneously combust as a measure of some sinister military feat - unless you're in a new-agey Stormbreaker novel.
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