There was a time, not so long ago, when I was hopeful the world could start seeing all the environmental challenges it faces on a global scale, confront them and collectively, even cooperatively, figure out a way to deal with them so that the human race and the animal kingdom could, you know, survive, and a real climate crisis could be averted.

I’m saddened to report that, for me at least, that glimmer of hope I had is fading and fading fast. 

It’s fading fast because we are now starting to see the real cost of ‘greening’ the planet in terms of energy expenditure, mining, processing, manufacturing and shipping to create the and periodically replace the things we need to substantially reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.

And these costs, are for many countries in the world today, prohibitive, if not impossible to afford.

I hate to sound pessimistic, because the world is a strange place and weird things happen all the time. But in the current state of geopolitics and economics in the world, both the capital and the political will to really conquer these challenges simply do not exist..

There is a lot of bad shit going on, and it’s already starting to happen. The only way to avoid this is for the countries of the world to start cooperating with each other. 

But as long as the fossil fuel industry maintains its stranglehold on the world’s economies, this is simply not going to be possible no matter how many Teslas solar panels and windmills we make.

But many of us are stubborn and not willing to give up, so we will keep crusading and encouraging the capitalists of the world to start putting their money where the future returns will be. 

Supporting fossil fuels and other smokestack industries is no longer in the best interest of our world. There are amazing ideas and opportunities out there In the renewables and recycling sectors. All they need the the chance to grow and become the tools that will provide opportunity and a cleaner world going forward.