Alternative Energy: Solar Power and Climate Change

It would seem that there is no middle ground available in this debate on climate change and finding an alternative energy source. Solar power is the most logical new power source for Australia yet it is not receiving enough funding for more Research and Development (R&D) funding from our Government. Is this the result of 'big business' lobbying or is it other vested interests interfering and positioning themselves for more gain out of the situation?

It is intriguing if you are what has been conveniently labelled as a "conspiracy theorist" or a "sceptic" and therefore not worth listening to, if someone has the gall to question our scientists and leaders on this matter. The average person in the street knows that our climate is going through a massive change because our summers are getting hotter and it seems winters are getting colder around the world. Australia is still experiencing massive water shortages and some areas are still in drought after nearly 12 years. Change is all around us every day so how could we not notice it?

Because we recognize that change is happening to our environment doesn't mean we condone some of the ways that our elected officials are handling the situation. It seems a strange position to insist on to come up with a potential solution based on limiting ourselves before we hear what other Nations are going to do about their share of the problem. Why is Australia so determined to lock ourselves up before we even hear the charges? From the point of law, this seems a very strange position to adopt just before a world wide conference on the problem.

These anomalies are just some of the questions that remain unasked and unanswered. Our media is letting Australia down because they are not investigating these questions sufficiently well due to either so called lack-of-funding or because of a vested interest in the outcome. They are also partly responsible for rubbishing people who are asking some of the questions that need answers. The electronic media is so busy chasing ratings for advertising dollars that they are a major contributor to the 'dumbing down' of our citizenry so they never ask the hard questions.

Whatever the outcome will be from Copenhagen in December 2009 is going to eventually and dramatically affect all our lives. No where probably more so than in the developed western world. To date, it has been the western world who is a major contributor to both the financial economic woe's, climate change and lack of assertion to find an alternative energy source.

Solar Power is to date, the most advanced alternative energy source in Australia. It is a source of energy that is available Australia wide, including the rural areas who often in the past have been at the rear end of technological progress.

The biggest change of all has to come from our elected leaders. Lobbyists have to be controlled and some of our politicians need to grow a few calluses and tell the vested interests to back off and stop thinking only of shareholder profits and bonuses. Until we put greed aside long enough to all work for the common good, we are all likely to end up in the dark.

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