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Western Carolinian Volume 67 Number 18

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14 comrnentar conservative*_commentary The Highest Patriotism Lies in Weaning USE From Fossil Fuels By Robert Redford Redford, the actor and director, is a Vote Solar supporter. The Bush White House talks tough on military matters in the Middle -East while remaining virtually silent about the long-Qerm problem posed by U.S. dependence on fossil fuels. Failing to rein in our dependence on imported oil gives leverage to undemocratic and unstable regimes. Wasteful consumption of fossil political liabilities overseas; air pollution at home and global warming, The rate at which the United States b u ms fossil fuels has made our country a leading contributor to global warming, The Bush administration's enetgy policy to date—a military garrison in the Middle East and drilling for more Oil in the Arctic and other fragile habitats—is costly, dangerous and self-defeating. Despite the absen.ce of leadership on energy security in Washington; some efforts on the local level are paying off. Last year, San Francisco voters overwhelmingly approved a $100 million bond initiative to pay for solar panels, wind power and enetgy efficiency for public buildings, The measure was supported not only by the envilonmental community but also by the Chamber of Commece; labor unions and the American Lung Association. San Francisco's first solar project, a $5,2 million energy-eficiency upgrade at the Moscone Convention Center, was dedicated last month. What's the straight economic benefit of this particular project? Plenty. The upgrades and the panels combined Will cut enetgy consumption in the building by as much as 38 p ement, and the project will pay for itselffiom energy savings. The net savings to taxpayers after debt service is subtracted are projected to be more than $200,000 a year American rooftops can be the Persian Gulf of solar energy, After Australia;? no developed nation on Earth gets mote annual sunlight than the United States. In addition; wind is now the fastest-growing energy source worldwide and one of the cheapest. But wind and solar power generate less than 2 percent of U.S. power. We can do 'better We can increase auto fuel economy standards to 40 miles per gallon. The technology to achieve that goal exists now. Phasing in that standaid by 2012 would save 15 times more oil than Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is likely to produce over 50 years. We could also give tax rebates for existing hybrid gas-electric vehicles that get as much as 60 miles per gallon and invest in mass transit. These measures would keep energy dollars in the American economy, teduce air pollution and create jobs at home. The benefits of switching to a mostly pollution-fiee economy would be considerable, and the costs of failing to do so would be steep. Prolonging our dependence on fossil fuels would guarantee homeland insecurity. If you are worried about getting oil from an unstable Persian Gulf, consider the altematives: Indonesia, Nigeria, Uzbekistan. If we want energy we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way, Other issues may crowd the headlines, but this is our fundamental challenge. Big challenges requir bold action and leadership. To get the United States off fossil fuels in this uneasy national climate of terrorism and conflict in the Persian Gulf, we must treat the issue with the urgency and persistence it deserves. The measure ofour success will be the condition in which we leave the world for the next generation. Weaning our nation from fossil fuels should be understood as the most patriotic policy to which we can commit ourselves. 02002LATlMES conservative_commentary It's Not Paranoia: Be Very Afraid By Norah Vincent Vincent is a writer and a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a think tank that studies terrorism. The war on terror is a ploy. It's not real. It's not necessary. It's just a horror show meant to keep us all cowed and passive while the government has its way. The Bush administration keeps us quaking in our slippers, issuing periodic vague alerts as an elaborate justification for its agenda of plundering the environment;' demonizing nonwhite undesirables; quashing o u rcivil liberties and attacking foreign countries with impunity. This is a view that many people, including certain ptominent intellectuals and Hollywood yahoos, appear to share: We live in a culture of fear, for no apparent reason except that Big Brother wants it that way. This came up recently at a dinner party I attended, where the p levailing view around the table seemed to be that this cartoon worldview as depicted in ' 'provocateur}' Michael Moore's film "Bowling for Columbine" was right. '"Why ate we so afraid?" my companions asked. This struck me as an astounding question to pose in a post-Sept: 1 1 world, but one I nonetheless took seriously because these were intelligent, thoughtful people. When I said the painfully obvious—that we're afraid because little more than a year ago terrorists attacked us catastrophically on our -own soil and that we're afraid because, duh, that's why they call it termrism—l was gteeted by a series of incredulous "yeah buts." Then it occurrd to me that the problem wasn't that these people we ten't aware of a terrorist thrat, but that they didn't rally believe in it anymor. Or that, like communism, it had become an amorphous chimera whose danger they doubted. They had forgotten what exactly about this new form oftermrism was so terrifying. Maybe they need 'to be reminded. Maybe we all do, Islamist •tertor should scar us for very good teasons, the primary one being that it is genocidal and not preventable, a lethal combination. Al-Qaida is bent on annihilating us (the Western infidels), and it is very close to having the means to do so. Captuted videos show al-Qaida operatives testing poison gas on dogs, We know that Osama bin Laden has tried to buy nuclear material on the black market, Although our enemies have obtained such weapons in the past; none before has been in a position to use them without facing retaliation. Mutually assured destruction has always been a deterrent to rogue nations. Not so al-Qaida because its members ate blithely homicidal (they do not spare civilians; even their own) as well as suicidal, More important, they no longer ate state-sponsored. They ar widely dispersed, largely untraceable and therefore; as an entity, mostly unpunishable and possibly even unstoppable. The danger is apocalyptic. What's mote, it's insidious and ubiquitous. The terrorist diaspora has spread acmss the world in covert cells from Indonesia; Central Asia; East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula to Lackawanna, N.Y., wher authorities arrested six suspected al-Qaida operatives in September They are indeed everywher, around us and among us, striking randomly in New York City, Washington, DEC., Bali, Yemen , Kenya; Kuwait and Afghanistan and vowing mote to Come. Is this fantasy? Is this paranoia? Hardly. Casualties are mounting on all sides, the enemy is invisible and we are the big fat designated target with nowhere to hide. I'd say we have cause to be very nervous. This is not the Cold Wa It's far worse. Yet leftists are approaching it in the same spirit of insouciant denial with which they once dismissed the th teat Ofcommunist spies in our midst. As access to Soviet atchives has shown, they were wrong then. And they'r wrong now. The evidence is in the rubble and the bodies..XJ21ATIMES».

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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.
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  - Western Carolina University
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  - Date original: 2002-12-08
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  - Dimension: 14" x 11.5"
  - Pages: 20
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  - Jackson County (N.C.)
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  - Western Carolina University Hunter Library

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