Yes, I agree that at some point in our history the wisdom was that the earth was indeed flat. And horses were the main mode of transportation at one time. And blacksmith was a great job. But I prefer to look forward, where in progressive states the cleaner energy jobs are burgeoning, and where the US can someday say that cleaner energy is a source for a majority of our electricity. In the meantime, I prefer to, yes, make me happy and maybe do my part in history. Ya gotta start somewhere!!
Except "progressive" states aren't really burgeoning anything worthwhile, or even "clean."
Wind energy is a joke. You need massive amounts of land to create wind farms that produce very little energy respectively.
Solar energy produces massive amounts of waste, which in 15-25 years when all of the panels will need to be sent out to pasture, will cause a huge toxic waste problem.
Some countries that have resorted to burning the old panels to reclaim some of the material used to make them, release massive amounts of toxins in the air during incineration. Toxins also leak out of the panels if they are left in a "dump," and eventually end up contaminating local water sources.
The other issue is that both wind and solar need to be augmented by burning fossil fuels anyway, as there isn't a way to store the energy for times when the sun is not up, and the wind isn't blowing.
If people really wanted to decrease carbon emissions, we would have been utilizing Nuclear Power more heavily throughout the US for the last few decades.
Instead, now we are stuck in a state of limbo, where we have to deploy expensive half measures that are just adding to the problem in different ways.
