"You don't have to believe in climate change to solve it. Everything we do to raise energy efficiency, will make money, improve security & health, and stabilize climate." - physicist Amory Lovins, chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute.

 

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Source: "Take the Subway," by Thomas Friedman, New York Times, March 3, 2012.

Notes: Physicist Amory Lovins is a leading expert in energy efficiency and sustainable energy for the past 35 years.  He is co-founder and chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute, an independent think tank dedicated to promoting energy and resource efficiency.

Amory's quote that is mentioned above in the soundbite, reminds me of the song lyrics from John Lennon's Watching the Wheels, "People asking questions, lost in confusion.  Well, I tell them there's no problem only solutions."

Taking action to resolve climate change offers so many solutions, such as less pollution, American energy independence, saving money with energy efficiency, jobs for millions of Americans, new business opportunites and investment, innovation, besides also stabilizing our planet's climate.

Amory Lovins also states in the 2008 National Geographic DVD, Six Degrees that Could Change the World, "Climate change is a problem we do not need to have, and it is cheaper not to (have it)...Once people understand climate protection puts money back into your pocket because you do not have to buy all that fuel, the political resistance will melt faster than the glaciers."

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