The Presidential Race

We have it within our capacity to develop our earthly nations renewably. But not by maintaining the status quo, or worse... Continuing poor harvesting practices for coal and oil. Romney loves Coal. He wants to get coal cities back on track. Let us never mind the sordid history of disease, poverty, labor and union disputes; or men who put their lives on the line while cities go bankrupt. Then, there's oil. Lets drill in Alaska and the Arctic. Never mind the BP Oil spill was less than 2 years ago and oil companies themselves admit to not having the resources to manage catastrophes that potentially cause thousands of years of environmental disaster.

 Now, I would like to address Governor Romney’s 5 point plan for economic equanimity. 1^st, Old energy harnessing practices. We have a man before us, 

who has made absolutely no clear, official statement on what his policy is regarding energy, or environment, short of, "I'm all for clean energy, and clean coal, and clean oil, and clean.... ... """  What is "Clean Coal" exactly? It is coal burning with carbon and capture storage that they say is 90% less harmful than current practices. Carbon capture and Storage is a term used to propagate company’s usage and safeguarding of coal underground to limit co2 emissions. It does not necessitate the means within whereby coal is harvested and byproducts disposed. There's a lot of land to dig through before coal, "fossil fuel", can be extracted. And that land is disposed of as a waste, in water sources. And these lands where within we harvest this "clean coal" does not grow back. It is the literal antithesis of renewable... But yes, a convenient short term energy supply, unless you live the Appalachians.

2^nd, imports to South America. America’s number one import to South America is machinery. And I want to be clear; it’s very specific machinery. South American deforestation has risen by a factor of 20% in the last 10 years. During that time South American exports to America have increased in equal measure. 40% of their total exports are to America. South America is also on the verge of building the second largest hydroelectric dam in the world under largely big business American influence. This dam will displace some 20,000 indigenous people, and cause deforestation and flooding, down the length of the 1,230 mile river. Without proper disposal of the land and due to its highly humid climate, this will cause a methane release into the atmosphere that is unheard of. Methane is 20 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than that of carbon dioxide. Extinction of endangered species as well as widespread disease will be the result. These business positions are highly lucrative for America, for the short term, but do nothing for the sanctity of the land, or the safeguarding of it’s people, nor does it help an economically challenged South America. Governor Romney lastly champions small business. What he means by “small business” is tax cuts for large business with “small business” subsidiaries. As for his education plan… Umm.. He doesn’t have one.

We are a fortunate and wealthy society. Even with our economic decline, we consume more than any nation ever in the history of our species; immeasurably more in the last Century. Politically, we think it ok to balk at a leader investing in renewable energy, an emerging, overlooked science. Go back! We say.. That's what worked before.. That's what made us rich. When these energy consortiums fail, we say, No More!! We need that Money. What money? Our Fiat Currency is backed by nothing. Either we find a cheaper resource to feed us, or the worlds economy will collapse. There is no looking back. We are a joint nation of the world whether we acknowledge it or not and the future is grim. Choose your leaders wisely.. Observe their motives, intentions, and their integrity, because a nation, in this critical time, which does not look to its everlasting future, may be the cause of its global destruction. Nations rise and fall, they have throughout history. However, what we face now, is a matter global balance, and the United States plays the largest hand. It only took 4.5 Billion years for intelligence to evolve here... It'd be an awful thing to waste.