On television, ABC, NBC, and McNeil-Lehrer News Hour featured global warming. Even David Letterman kicked in with the Top 10 Reasons to Love Global Warming. Global warming's a tough one. Europe is already on board. Look around, though, and a future without fossil fuels seems like an impossible dream.
Cars are ubiquitous, coal plants fuel hundreds of cities.
Decentralized, renewable energy technologies, including wind and solar power, as well as basement power production using fuel cell and flywheel technologies, are approaching a critical mass where mass production ramps up, prices drop, and investment pours in. Centralized power plants and internal combustion engines can be replaced by the more cost-effective, flexible and clean energy sources with surprising speed, according to Flavin. We need to act to speed the mass transition to decentralized, renewable technologies. The energy world's best kept secret is that fossil fuel dependency is not in the interest of local communities. You couldn't ask for a better basis for widening grassroots support to fight global warming.