“Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.”
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The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.
Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.
Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
