It’s Election Day in the United States, much anticipated here for several reasons, perhaps chiefly insofar as it means an immediate cessation of the horrifically mean-spirited and misleading campaign advertising.
I just got back from the polling place and found this email from Ralph Avallone, who serves as president of the National Green Energy Council, a non-profit green energy advocacy group. Their main push is job creation in the green energy sector, certainly a laudable goal. Avallone concludes:
Please get out and vote today…The future of our nation as an economic superpower depends on it.
Absolutely true. I would only add: Vote in such a way as to maximize the probability that we will soon have a progressive energy policy that both: a) puts millions of people back to work and b) addresses the many different kinds of catastrophes associated with a “business as usual” approach to the subject.
