one green step for man…

July 17th, 2008 at 09:54pm Jennie Pollock

i can’t keep up with every bit of eco-news. but our former veep, al gore, was all over the news today calling for end to carbon-fuel dependence in the next decade.

Gore compared the challenge to establishing Social Security and the Interstate highway system, as well as landing a man on the moon — all successes that took more than a single presidency to accomplish and required members of both political parties to overcome their partisanship.

The Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan group Gore leads, put the 30-year cost of his plan — both government and private — at $1.5 trillion to $3 trillion.

To speed up the transition to new energy sources, Gore said the single most important policy change would be to “tax what we burn, not what we earn,” advocating a tax on carbon dioxide pollution.

you can read his speech here or watch it. i hope you just don’t get “green fatigue” in the “green fog.”

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