Green Dream

The foundation of the Green Dream is to move from fossil fuels to solar and wind since nuclear is out. Both of these forms of energy require the use of rare earth metals. These can no longer be mined in the US because they are considered environmental hazards so 90% of these metals come from China. They are already creating havoc with the land and water in China and each year the problem worsens. In addition, as the US moves away from coal fired power plants, to keep our air clean we are shipping excess coal to Asia and Africa where they are continuing to build new coal power plants. News people do not bring this up because of several reasons one of which is their lack of understanding science. Often time these people remark that they are no good at math and since mathematics is the language of science they are not good at science. We are helping to poison the land, the water and the air in China so we can have a clean environment here in the US. The runs counter to President Obama's statement that, "this is not who we are". This could all be avoided if the US and the rest of the western world would move to natural gas for all power plants and for all transportation but that move has no political advantage so once again, I repeat my constant refrain, that nothing ruins science like politics.