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Article: Clean Energy LLC: solving global warming is possible--and profitable.(Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy)(Book review)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- December 1, 2007
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Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy by Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks Island Press, 387 pp.
The debate over global warming has changed. Not so long ago, the point of contention was the science. Some feared that adding billions of tons of pollution to the atmosphere was to flirt with environmental disaster, while others advised that it was no problem at all, and maybe even good for the earth. In the face of mounting scientific evidence, however, that latter group has dwindled to a tiny (if still vocal) fringe.
Now that we have largely accepted that the problem of global warming exists, our governments ...