Will My Children's Children Ever Visit a Gas Station?

It was creepy to read that the China Syndrome came out twelve days before the leak at Three Mile Island. Even though the movie is set in California, the line that refers to the potential destruction hits close to home: "This would render an area the size of Pennsylvania uninhabitable." I was almost 10 when the accident at TMI occurred. It is scary to imagine how different my life would have been had the accident been worse. I know oil spills are bad, but since the Fukushima disaster, I have been even more concerned about nuclear power.

The climate skeptics point to snow in October and say, "Hah, see? No global warming." But scientists know that a few weather events do not prove or disprove climate change. However, over longer periods, we can expect to see (and have seen) "The wets wetter, the snows heavier, and the dries drier, because warm air holds more water vapor and that moisture leads to heavier storms in some areas and even less rainfall in others."

I was intrigued by the following claim: "...clean energy will become the successor to information technology as the next major cutting-edge industry on which the economic fortunes of the richest countries in the world will depend." Unfortunately, we are already getting beat by China and Germany. To be sure, China is a big coal-burning country, but is still can see the future of energy production. The readers point out that if our government sets higher standards, innovation and jobs will follow. And by the way, George H. W. Bush " introduced the idea of 'cap and trade'." Natural gas is tempting (still plentiful and lots of money to be made), but we can't afford to take our eyes off the ball: cleaner, renewable technologies. It will be good for the environment and our economy.