Mark Mills and Peter Huber of George Gilder's Digital Power Report make a compelling case that the Internet and the infrastructure supporting it are the fastest-growing sources of energy demand. Even the U.S. Department of Commerce says information technology industries contributed a third of U.S. economic growth between 1995 and 1999. California, center of the high-tech world, has to do better, but so does the rest of the country. That means more diversified sources of energy, market pricing, ending regulatory barriers to new plant construction and balancing ecological concerns with the demands of everyday life in this brand-new technological century. The fastest-growing, most advanced economies always do the best job of protecting the environment.
Growth truly is green, and it's too bad California has to learn that lesson the hard way.
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