Editorial Board: 'If voters, consumers, homeowners and their government officials make the right decisions, it won’t be that long before the market turns away from dirty dinosaur guts as the primary fuels of our society. ...'
is unacceptably awful. It is better than it was, in many ways, thanks to cleaner-burning fuels and more efficient automobiles and household appliances, most of it federally mandated. But the bad air is still a danger to public health in our state, damaging lungs and shortening lives.
This double threat, we all know, rises from an unending dependence on fossil fuels such as coal and oil. Natural gas is cleaner and cheaper than its hydrocarbon siblings and will reasonably last the longest. But we will have to learn to live without it, too. And, in broad terms, we know how. All brought hopeful messages from the future, not least among them the fact that “sustainability” is increasingly a government, academic and corporate value.
There is a good argument to be made that that’s not fast enough. But it is a hopeful example of how business can get with the program, not only accepting the need for carbon neutral goals but leading out on them and realizing how, in the long run, the boost the bottom line.
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