Change the way we think!

I am pro-life, environmental life that is. We are very backward in the way we conduct business in this country and are very disconnected to the earth we live on. We are destroying the only planet we have. If every person int he world used energy like the average American we would need 4 Earths.
Water is a vital resource that we waste. 70% of the earth is covered in water, but only 0.1% is accessible freshwater. There are 1.1 billion people in the world that don't have access to fresh water.
America is known for dragging it's feet when it has to do something. Look at the economy for example. America was still using wood for 90% of its energy in 1850. We use coal to produce over 50% of our electricity. Even if we turn a blind eye to mountaintop-removal and strip mining for coal, the waste generated by coal is horrendous. The waste from coal contains heavy metals such as aluminum, arsenic, and mercury all of which are harmful to our health as humans and the health of the environment.
We need to employ renewable energies to supply green jobs and a cleaner future. Coal is a nonrenewable resource and we don't have to argue about that because it is scientific fact. So jobs related to coal are going to slowly go down. This could be in hundreds of years or in a few decades, but logically jobs related to nonrenewable resources are going to go down. With green jobs there is going to be a skyrocket of jobs because we need people to build these technologies and plants and then the level of jobs is going to level out and we would only need people to maintain the technology. So with green jobs we get a steady rate of jobs instead of a slowly dieing rate of jobs.
We only need to look around us to see the possibilities of green energy. Canada gets 70% of its electricity from hydropower. We only use 10% of the potential waterpower in the U.S. Wind power is the fastest growing energy source in the world today. We can also use Solar power and geothermal energy. The sun is the biggest energy source and won't run out for 5 billion years. Enough energy hits the earth in an hour to power the world for a year. By just being more efficient with our energy we can save 42% of the energy we use in the U.S.

So rethink the way we use energy!

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