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Shifting The Climate Change Dialogue
As the carbon footprints get covered with snow, as the greenhouse gas clears and the hot air turns back into a chilly Denmark breezes, what will be the future of the climate change dialogue? If left to skeptics, we may belieive that we still have unsound scientific data, or the numbers have been laundered. If left to the well, left I suppose, then we may be in for a total shift of lifestyles for many people. But Ron Jones from thegreenbuilder.com illustrates the point of climate change dialogue through cartoonist Joel Patt of the Lexington-Herald Leader. The cartoon depicts a skeptical audience member being shown the benefits of clean energy and is demanding the answer to his question something similar to "what if climate change is all a big hoax and we create a more livable, cleaner and healthier world for all this work?"
If the goals are:
Energy Independence
Preserve Rainforests
Sustainability
Green Jobs
Livable Cities
Renewables
Clean Water, Air
Helathy Children
If the enormous task of facing these problems is finally here and these goals are achieved, we have cleaned up our act even if there is a "hoax" on ourselves. We cannot reasonably assume that we know everything there is to know about this complex planet and the universe in which it spins. But we can know that what we have done in the past to this planet cannot continue without some kind of impact.

