Michael Williams helped with research for this article.
With the oil continuing to spew out of BP's hole in the floor of the Gulf of Mexico and with Israel's assault on those who would provide aid to blockaded Gaza, the continuing rise of sea levels and melting of the Polar ice cap and climate patterns changing; it is beyond debate that we must move to green energy generation on a much larger and faster scale and pace and reduce the amount of carbon emitted in our air and the amount of fossil fuels that we consume.