It's code green and everyone's trying to be part of it. The United States is one of the largest consumers of oil and these days we hear all over the news how it's trying to break the addiction to foreign oil. A huge feat no doubt, but not an impossible one. It's defnitiely going to take some time but the reminders are everywhere now. And the U.S is not alone in thinking this way since it's actually the right way to go. So what happens when oil goes out of style and alternative fuel sources become the in thing. What happens to a largely monoproduct economy like Nigeria?
Monday, September 15, 2008
And Then What?
It's code green and everyone's trying to be part of it. The United States is one of the largest consumers of oil and these days we hear all over the news how it's trying to break the addiction to foreign oil. A huge feat no doubt, but not an impossible one. It's defnitiely going to take some time but the reminders are everywhere now. And the U.S is not alone in thinking this way since it's actually the right way to go. So what happens when oil goes out of style and alternative fuel sources become the in thing. What happens to a largely monoproduct economy like Nigeria?
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Unfortunately, code green's cool is not simply good. New electricity- and battery-based energy consuming markets will open up new demands for certain metals and toxins and develop new monoproduct economies--you mention Nigeria's--that may ultimately bring about environmental havoc. I'm hoping that the cool of green will result not in alternative fuels consumption, but alternative lifestyles. Bike, don't drive to work! -goodbadi
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