News Massive oil reserves found in the US

[deckart]

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, by setting the goal of putting a man on the moon in less than a decade, demonstrated that if we have the will we can find the way. We can solve all our energy problems through conservation, innovation, adapting different lifestyles, redesigning our cities, etc. All we are lacking is the political will.

Conservation and adapting different lifestyles is a tough sell, Sky. It's not just political will, it's public will. Start with the public and politics will follow.

 

[jimmie]

Start with the public and politics will follow.

Start with the individual, Me/you, and other individuals (public/politics) will follow.

 

[Skyhunter]

Conservation and adapting different lifestyles is a tough sell, Sky. It's not just political will, it's public will. Start with the public and politics will follow.

Kennedy didn't wait for the public to demand we go to the moon, he set us on the path, that is what leaders do, lead.

It is not as tough a sell as you think. When Americans are told the truth, they will do the right thing. The problem is that the vested interests, who have most of the power are lying to us. Telling us that we need oil, global warming is a myth, the Earth can absorb the pollution we are generating, Environmental practices will hurt us economically, etc, etc, ad infinitum.

 

[loseyourname]

It is not as tough a sell as you think. When Americans are told the truth, they will do the right thing. The problem is that the vested interests, who have most of the power are lying to us. Telling us that we need oil, global warming is a myth, the Earth can absorb the pollution we are generating, Environmental practices will hurt us economically, etc, etc, ad infinitum.

Maybe you are too old to have experienced this, but public education bombarded me in elementary school with the three R's, with the policy of conservation, and with tales of global warming and overconsumption of resources. I also know that they're still doing it to kids today, as I volunteer with elementary schoolkids and see the material they're reading. That's twenty years at least that they've been doing this. The next generation of American leaders almost certainly will be different, unless they simply were not paying attention growing up.

 

[Smurf]

unless they simply were not paying attention growing up.

Ya think?

 

[Smurf]

Kennedy didn't wait for the public to demand we go to the moon, he set us on the path, that is what leaders do, lead.
It is not as tough a sell as you think. When Americans are told the truth, they will do the right thing. The problem is that the vested interests, who have most of the power are lying to us. Telling us that we need oil, global warming is a myth, the Earth can absorb the pollution we are generating, Environmental practices will hurt us economically, etc, etc, ad infinitum.

Behind you 100% of the way Skyhunter. The problem is the government is a civilian government anymore, it's a corporate government. Almost our entire policy (and this goes for Canada but even more so the US) is decided on how the economy will do.

 

[Skyhunter]

Maybe you are too old to have experienced this, but public education bombarded me in elementary school with the three R's, with the policy of conservation, and with tales of global warming and overconsumption of resources. I also know that they're still doing it to kids today, as I volunteer with elementary schoolkids and see the material they're reading. That's twenty years at least that they've been doing this. The next generation of American leaders almost certainly will be different, unless they simply were not paying attention growing up.

We had a 2 cent deposit on bottles when I was growing up, theat was the closest thing to recycling we had. I am glad to hear that they are teaching the three R's in school.

 

[Skyhunter]

Behind you 100% of the way Skyhunter. The problem is the government is a civilian government anymore, it's a corporate government. Almost our entire policy (and this goes for Canada but even more so the US) is decided on how the economy will do.

Kennedy was a maverick politician, he and his brother bucked the system, and the mob. You see where it got them. I don't think we have any more "profiles in courage" today like what was demonstrated by Jack and Bobby Kennedy. Teddy isn't even a shadow of them.