Renewable energy is electricity (among other forms of power) that we create without destroying the source. This is one of the problems we have with fossil fuels. After we have burned coal or gasoline nothing remains except the greenhouse gases causing record temperatures. Moreover we can’t recreate the source. We call renewable energy green because we can replenish it.
We Call Renewable Energy Green Because It’s Sustainable
Why do so many prophets, visionaries, artists and writers retreat into wilderness to rediscover their souls? If we ask them, they might say they reconnect with their inner nature and this unleashes their creativity.
Certainly, we evolved over a very long time from living sustainably in nature to where we are now. The poet T S Eliot grew up in semi-isolation because he had a congenital disability. A childhood friend described how “he would often curl up in the window-seat behind an enormous book, setting the drug of dreams against the pain of living.”
The End of Our Journey is Where We Started–In Green Living
T S Eliot penned these words as he looked back on a career as poet, dramatist, literary critic, and editor:
We shall not cease from exploration; and the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time
Perhaps we call renewable energy green because it recalls being in a garden where we have everything we need. If we could wish away the bad side of living irresponsibly for so long, perhaps we could start over again. We have a dream where all our energy needs come from the wind and the sun.
Great things will happen when all the nations call renewable energy green, because that’s what it is. Our salvation and our only hope against the great warming that is coming. It is time to embrace a new sustainable way of living. And want it as much as we yearn to breathe again, after swimming under water for a long time.
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