Earth in the Balance: on Technology


Promote $500B market for energy technology

The Kyoto goals are both practical and economically beneficial. The increases in our investment in renewable energy and conservation that the Clinton-Gore administration has fought for and won from Congress will not only cut down greenhouse gases but reduce energy costs and result in a new generation of environmental technologies that American companies can sell in the world market for pollution control, which is already worth $500 billion a year and is already dominated by the US. We have doubled environmental technology exports over the last four years, and we will do it again in the next four. Markets for new energy technology will burgeon to $10 trillion worldwide in the next two decades. The US can and must capture a significant share of that total through a strong program of research, demonstration, and deployment of technology.
Source: New foreword to Earth in the Balance, p. xvii Apr 23, 2000

  • The above quotations are from Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, by Al Gore.
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2012 Presidential contenders on Technology:
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Pres.Barack Obama(IL)
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