Energy crisis too often left to the next generation

Chances are, when you unplug whatever holiday lights you have, you won’t be thinking about whether there will be enough electricity to use them again next year – or by the time the kids grow up.

But there are people doing just that, for next year and the next century, and we should all be counting them among our holiday blessings.


…It really boils down to this:

We’re not expanding our ability to supply electricity at any rate nearly equal to our demand for it.

That affects price in the short run, but ultimately it will affect our ability to run our lives if we don’t figure out how to balance our power needs with all the costs of creating that power.

At a recent gathering of some experts in the energy field, hosted by the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, the opinions about our future varied as much as the backgrounds of those who spoke, but there was one area of agreement:

We’re running out of time.

The Journal News