Comments on: Making Money by Going Green http://www.energyplanet.info/blog/2007/03/18/going-green/ Blog for the Renewable Energy Directory Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:12:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Curt http://www.energyplanet.info/blog/2007/03/18/going-green/#comment-326 Curt Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:43:21 +0000 http://www.energyplanet.info/blog/2007/03/18/going-green/#comment-326 You are correct that 'green' is the future of the economy, but the question is how much green? Our economy is fueled by cheap and easily accessible fossil fuels, the 'low hanging fruit' you might say and we have picked virtually all of it and we don't have an easy or readily available substittute. So what happens to an economy that is almost totally dependent on a finite, non-renewable resource that is waning in production? The answer is that we'll find out just how adaptable humans really are. You are correct that ‘green’ is the future of the economy, but the question is how much green? Our economy is fueled by cheap and easily accessible fossil fuels, the ‘low hanging fruit’ you might say and we have picked virtually all of it and we don’t have an easy or readily available substittute.

So what happens to an economy that is almost totally dependent on a finite, non-renewable resource that is waning in production? The answer is that we’ll find out just how adaptable humans really are.

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