Michael Gelobter
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Michael Gelobter is the former president of Redefining Progress and current CEO of Cooler.
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It is easy being green
Michael Gelobter argues that the hair-shirtists need to give it a rest 3
Posted 1 year, 11 months agoAsk "how can we break our addiction to fossil fuels and stop global warming?" and climate, renewable energy, and peak oil advocates reply in unison: it's going to be hard.
They do couch their warnings in beautifully written and, for the most part, evocative essays on the difficulty and loss involved in weaning ourselves from dinosaur fuel. They express significant melancholy for the (wayward?) ways of wanton energy use and thoughtless environmental destruction we leave behind. But underneath it is always the the hair-shirt: in the creed of those not motivated by greed (lefties), nothing worthwhile could ever be easy.
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