Zero sum gains...

Is this global energy market working? Throughout Europe, United States, India, China and all areas of the known planet, we are seeing the effects of our existence as an integral part of the global ecosystem. As our oil fields begin to become depleted and there continues to be unstable regions throughout the oil rich Arab nations we will find ourselves paying increasing amounts for our energy resources. That is until our administration decides to make solid moves forward toward alternative energies that create solutions not band aids.

The motivation is clearly not do to the evidence of our direct relation to our(mans') existence within our environment that expands over twenty thousand years. Many more details have become available to us in the past one hundred years and more. Through Darwin's studies and subsequent scholars and scientists since we have measured and notated millions of various species and living environments. Despite this fact, there yet are arguments for and against the thought that the human presence has a measured effect on our use of the planet and its resources. But wouldn't it seem that as natural as a CO2 emission is in the global environment without man's presence, it should go without saying that with our presence is simply an added effect that can be measured and quantified. Due to this we, if we are not creating the Ozone depletion through our massive CO2 emissions globally, we have now in the past 100 or so odd years created a noted mark of our consumption. We must find a means to bring ourselves to a point of zero net emissions. This is is the responsible means to our existence here on this limited space we inhabit.

As we find ourselves venturing more assets more quickly into the burgeoning commercial industries of alternative energies and alternative resources we find that this presents opportunity for new generations of industry pioneers and researchers to find appropriate technologies that will carry us globally into the future. This is capitalism at its best. We must embrace and assist in the quest and desire to find these alternative sources of capitalism.

As farmers in America are subsidized for the corn crops for ethanol, we should also subsidize as much for other alternative energy methods. Since ethanol is only a 10% to 20% replacement in most petroleum based fuels, we should be subsidizing the same amount of money to companies researching and creating alternative energies. It seems only fair. In fact, in the long run the subsidies for the alternative energies will pay off better for our economy. Through this assistance we will find energies that become zero net and free to acquire once the installations are in place. This is substantially different to the subsidizing of corn. We are finding the price of food rising, water consumption is dramatically increased due to this crops need for cultivation. Studies show that the emissions from the manufacturing and shipping of ethanol do nothing for the overall cause as they exceed or negate the savings we are trying to achieve.

As we find out more about ourselves and our place in our environment we must act more responsibly to ourselves and nature. By becoming more of a society that learns to create and consume on a zero net gain equation through conservation methods, re-use and recycle practices, emissions control and containment, and more.