Barack Obama: Our First GREEN President?

There is much ado about the election of our first black president, but really, the color of his skin is meaningless

to me. It`s the color of his politics that are of concern,

meaning, “is he green?”

The gap between whites and blacks, hispanics, and other

minorities grows ever smaller in this country and a black

or hispanic president, and eventually a female president,

was inevitable. Fifty years ago it was an impossibility for a

CATHOLIC  to be elected to the highest office!

Mr. Obama has already stated in his speeches that part

of his economic stimulus plan would include big renewable

energy projects and that is encouraging.

After eight years of an administration that was thoroughly

in bed with the oil industry and two centuries of plundering

the planet in the name of the industrial revolution, it is time

to reassess our goals and the future of our planet.

We have burned collossal amounts of non-renewable,

highly polluting fossil fuels in the past two hundred years,

and that energy has given us a dream lifestyle filled with

conveniences and gadgets, toys and transportation that

would have been pure science fiction when Fulton invented

the steam engine and started it all. Unfortunately, we are

now paying a huge price for all these conveniences in the

form of air, soil, and water pollution, as well as global

warming, which, if allowed to continue unchecked, will soon

make our planet a terrestrial hell.

Fossil fuels are the culprit, so what to do about our depend-

ence on them should be foremost in our minds.

Not if, but when the ice caps melt, sea levels will rise at

least thirty feet, inundating almost every coastal city and

town on earth. There is great concern that the influx of all

that fresh water will stop the flow of the gulf stream and

bring on the next ice age.

Are we going to give up all the modern conveniences made

possible by the burning of fossil fuels? Of course not! But

there are things that everyone can do to reduce the size of

their carbon footprint, cheaply, as well as save many thou-

sands of dollars in energy costs!

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