'Rooftop Revolution': Why It's Time to Join the Solar Boom

[xchrom]

http://www.alternet.org/environment/rooftop-revolution-why-its-time-join-solar-boom



There’s an epic struggle afoot for the head and the heart of America. And the fat cats in Dirty Energy who feed off our addiction to fossil fuel have an obvious motivation—profits—to keep us in denial about our bad habit. They don’t want us to dwell on our energy addiction and the damage it does to ourselves, our planet, and our children’s future. So Dirty Energy dips into its very deep pockets to tout its brand of power in the news and keep America in the dark about cleaner, smarter, more-affordable options out there. But as a growing number of Americans are finding out, they do have options.

Although change is difficult and requires traction, it’s easier when someone shines a light on the path ahead, and this is what the solar-power movement is doing: providing a solution, an alternative to business as usual, while the coal, oil, nuke, and gas giants continue their fight for the status quo. Not to be too highfalutin, but when the colonial Americans were frustrated by heavy taxation without government representation, it wasn’t until they saw a new direction—inspired by the French Republic’s demand for liberty—that forces of change pushed them to have their own revolution.

It’s time for a new revolution, an energy revolution, our revolution—a Rooftop Revolution. The movement worldwide to go solar—to usurp the powers that be in our existing electricity grids and put power in the hands of those in the developing world who don’t have it—is creating a space for as profound a change. Breaking up monopolies, spreading benefits to the poorest, making consumers producers, and getting polluters to pay and thus using market forces to get them to participate in building a clean economy—this is what the Rooftop Revolution is all about. And that’s why it’s not surprising that King CONG [coal, oil, nuclear, gas] is fighting back.

[whistler162]

1. Living in the NorthEast I have to ask one thing.....

according to wiki "Solar power is the conversion of sunlight into electricity" which makes me ask what is sunlight?

[rickyhall]

2. Excuse me

But the French Revolution happened AFTER the American Revolution unless we've suddenly changed universes and nobody told me.

[Confusious]

4. Skipping basic basic facts makes me loose trust... Nt

[Yo_Mama]

5. You have entered the Alterverse

Mercan's never had a good idea of their own in the Alterverse.

[NoOneMan]

6. The point of the article is both couldn't of happened without solar and biodiesel

Lets not nitpick the details

[Yo_Mama]

8. Threadwinner!!! n/t

[lonestarnot]

3. Soon me.

[xtraxritical]

7. No links, no practical advice on how to, just a rant to get noticed I think.