I have to agree with my group about the prevailing mentality of the market liberal among both candidates. This is a little frightening to me because neither of them see the need to prepare or prevent any great environmental disaster.
Instead of focusing on the root of issues, they both focus on the human aspect of the problem, and how to make humans happy. The most emphasized parts of their energy/environmental policies spotlights how humans will benefit from greater environmental standards, not how the environment will benefit. This is the same mentality that got us into the problems we have with the environment know. I think if we could learn to sacrifice a little bit more, then we could truly solve some of our problems instead of just postponing them.
It is true that Obama seems to have a little more direction as far as concrete plans and goals for our environment. But frankly, I’m a little disappointed with both of them. I was hoping for a plan that would not just push more technology, but force us to address the real issues at stake. The only reason we’re all of a sudden so worried about new and cleaner fuels is because we want to break our dependency on foreign oil, and therefore make paying for gas a little easier on ourselves.
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