Green Dragons and Death of Uncle Sam

It seems the so-called socialists of China are beating Uncle Sam at his own money-grubbing game. Several mainstream news agencies are reporting that a ‘greening’ China is quickly surpassing U.S in innovation and production by invested nearly twice as much money ($34.6 billion) in clean energy projects in 2009 as the United States. [ source ]

Massive profits and job growth are already being created all over China as a result of the nationalistic efforts by law-makers to become the world’s leaders of innovation in clean and sustainable energy. The drive for clean energy is expected to be the catalyst for whole new industries in technology and production. This nascent market for ecological sustainable technology is already starting to flourish and will only help generate further innovation in the strategic harnessing of wind, solar and geothermal energy.

The widely respected Pew Report indicates that those countries with strong, national policies aimed at reducing global warming and encouraging the use of renewable energy—including the UK, Germany and Spain— are rapidly succeeded in establishing strong competitive positions in the clean energy economy. [ source ]

Canada, the country I live in, was ranked eighth globally in relative investment in sustainable technology, spending $3.3 billion investment in 2009, but represented an 80% annual increase from the previous year. [ source ]

The clean energy economy represents one of the greatest economic opportunities of the 21st century and no nation seeking to be competitive in the future can afford to ignore it. The damages incurred by a population unable to accept the truth about global warming and confront the corporate destruction of planetary ecosystems are incalculable - both economically as well as ecologically.

“Nations seeking to compete effectively for clean energy jobs and manufacturing would do well to evaluate the array of policy mechanisms that can be employed to stimulate clean energy investment,” the Pew Report stated. This is especially true for policymakers in the United States, which is at risk of falling further behind its G20 competitors in the coming years absent adoption of a strong national policy framework to spur more robust clean energy investments.

But how can law-makers in the U.S and Canada possibly begin to implement changes while massive campaigns of disinformation and confusion by corporate interests and neo-conservative elites have almost half of the population believing in conspiracy theories, communist takeover fantasies and pathological ideology?

CBS News reports the facts:

As ignorant conservative pundits continue to incite hate and brainwash the hordes of faithful followers into believing that ecological crisis is a uber-conspiracy by the commies to steal their babies and eat them, the American industrial complex will continue to whither and eventually be so far behind Europe and Asia in innovative solution-finding (as opposed to attacking science and spewing libertarian-based climate change denialism) they will have absolutely no recourse other than to choke on the rusted carcass of their outdated existence.

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