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'Our Choice; A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis' by Al Gore exemplifies the problems and challenges presented in solving the climate crisis and economic crisis simultaneously-the book is available in hardcover paper or audio but not as a free or low cost digital download. The former U.S. Vice President could have distributed the new book to hundreds of millions of people for free with little environmental cost if he (a former Nobel [Green] Peace Prize winner) had chosen to expedite the publication and move faster toward the resolution of anthropogenic global warming. I will need to wait until the cost at Amazon, for a used copy, drops to less than three dollars and pay that much in postage to have fuel wasted in delivering the second magnum opus. Other former journalists have written books too-perhaps as well as Mr. Gore. I believe he has good access to news sources.

I was able to read Scientific American's November edition with an article on how to move within thirty years to a planetary energy economy with no fossil fuels. With wind, water and solar power efficiency would increase too, and the 15 trillion watts of electricity the world will need in a few years annually would drop to just 11 trillion or so. Fossil fuels vehicles waste most of there energy as heat rather than for motion. Yet another interesting article was published in Foreign Affairs Nov/Dec 2009 by C. Fred Bergstein on 'The Next Financial Challenge'. This article indicates that the United States will have a 50 trillion dollar public debt by the year 2030 and send two and a half trillion dollars overseas each year to finance the debt. The remedies to the conventional economy are a little complex for the ordinary American to find interest in.

Fossil fuels are invariably finite in quantity on Earth. Since the U.S. post space shuttle N.A.S.A. will become a cadre of hitch-hikernauts riding communist designed space-ships to the pawned brokered space station they will not soon be capable of venturing to Neptune or Saturn to bring more methane gas down to Earth to help increase global warming if winter fuel supplies from the middle east run low or go too high in price. Fossil fuels are inhernetly economically destabilizing for the United States yet profitable for OPEC nations.

Solar power has a great capitalist prospect ahead for reducing cost of supply with increasing efficeince in solar panel cature technology. Like the computer industry solar panel technology should continually decrease in price.

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