The Green Energy Economy: What It Will Take to Get There

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To describe what's needed to wean the country off fossil fuels, people often use the word transition. As in "the transition to a clean-energy economy." But transition is too smooth. It suggests steadiness, even inevitability, as if the endpoint is predetermined.
The outcome of the tremendous push that's now underway to change how the United States and other countries obtain and consume energy is anything but predetermined. There are no definite answers to questions about the role one source of energy or another will play 15 or 20 years from now, no clear sense about the type of fuel (if any) people will put in their cars, no consensus on how quickly any of this can happen or at what cost.
Nor is the change likely to be smooth and quiet. Instead, it will probably be disruptive, breaking down existing ways of thinking and acting. Not that disruption is bad: Joseph Schumpeter, the famous Austro-Hungarian economist, once spoke of "creative destruction," whereby new technologies and ideas replace old ones, which themselves are overthrown by newer, more progressive ones.
Already, 2009 has been a year of ....

Progress has always come with disruption. Any necessary change will always create some friction with those who want things to remain the same. Liberal agenda is what makes change and not all change is good and not all change is bad. Time takes care of those changes that create benefit and those changes that create problems are met with different change. We have a saying that "just because U want to believe that the sun is shining doesn't mean it isn't raining" Ignoring the situation doesn't make a problem go away.

Green economy would be a time consuming and a hard job to complete. Government has to be a pushing power behind the green energy revolution. As many of us know that the future is green energy and many of us must start to invest in green energy techniques.

Alternative energy, like solar, could have been fully developed by now if the lessons learned from the oil embargo of the 1970's, hadn't been tossed aside by the Reagan administration and the republicans who chose to support big oil, instead of follow up on the headway made by pockets of regular citizens.

The moving to a "post petroleum" isn't as difficult as the establishment would have us believe. It's just not as profitable as they want it to be.

It's not going to be an easy road, and I think these are all good ideas. It has to be a complete overhaul of the way we've been conducting out lives (businesses especially). Finally corporations are realizing the full extent of what years of abuse to the planet has done.

Such a change does not come overnight, but I think 2009 has been the first big year that everyone is realizing that we need to change the way we live our lives.