Hi Dittmar,
We can talk up how much efficiency and renewables make sense from lots of perspectives.
From “The Business Case on Protecting the Climate”, with Hunter Lovins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXxw4yjma0k&feature=related
“The science doesn’t matter. I say that with all due deference to great scientists who are spending their lives trying to get the models to catch up to observed reality... But let’s assume that the climate skeptics are right; I wouldn’t go to the casino on those odds, but if all you care about is being a profit-maximizing capitalist, you’ll do exactly the same things you’d do if you were scared to death about climate change, because we know how to protect the climate at a profit. And the best companies are starting to do this...”
But then she goes on to talk about boring stuff like companies and cities making profits through efficiency, while surpassing their goals for CO2 reductions. Companies like Dow Chemical, DuPont, Tesco, STMicro-electronics; cities like Osage, Iowa, and Sacramento, California.
Our group CAUSE (Citizens Advocating Use of Sustainable Energy, at www.nuclearfreealberta.ca) is working with Hunter Lovins to bring her to Calgary in September.
ROGER GAGNE — 12 MAR 2010 - 04:51 PM MT
Hi Dittmar, We can talk up how much efficiency and renewables make sense from lots of perspectives. From “The Business Case on Protecting the Climate”, with Hunter Lovins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXxw4yjma0k&feature=related “The science doesn’t matter. I say that with all due deference to great scientists who are spending their lives trying to get the models to catch up to observed reality... But let’s assume that the climate skeptics are right; I wouldn’t go to the casino on those odds, but if all you care about is being a profit-maximizing capitalist, you’ll do exactly the same things you’d do if you were scared to death about climate change, because we know how to protect the climate at a profit. And the best companies are starting to do this...” But then she goes on to talk about boring stuff like companies and cities making profits through efficiency, while surpassing their goals for CO2 reductions. Companies like Dow Chemical, DuPont, Tesco, STMicro-electronics; cities like Osage, Iowa, and Sacramento, California. Our group CAUSE (Citizens Advocating Use of Sustainable Energy, at www.nuclearfreealberta.ca) is working with Hunter Lovins to bring her to Calgary in September.