As The Goal Dates Set By State Mandates Get Closer, And Their Requirements To Produce Higher Percentages Of Th?

Mandates are arbitrary and sometimes found to be unreasonable, but they are useful political tools to motivate needed action. The mandates for higher percentages of energy to come from renewable sources are constructive goals, and the escalating costs and sometimes debilitating shortages of available power should provide further motivation to modernize all of our energy production and distribution systems.
For far too long, the environmental costs of our power systems have been “externalized” — debiting Earth’s accounts to enrich our own. Now that we’re in the era of “peak oil” and global warming, with the global human population having added another ten percent over the past decade or so and ongoing geometric increases in our production of noxious wastes, it’s time for us to take a serious look at where we’ve been, what we’re doing now, and what life might be like in the next generation.
It’s time to get serious about this current generation’s duty to steward the planet responsibly. It’s time to recognize that we must nurture our planet as much as we nurture our children, in order that the planet can still nurture our children when we’re gone. Yes, it’s time to pay the real price of the energy we use, and the energy we’ve been using. It’s time to give something back, as an investment in the future of life.