Reverse the Twentieth Century

I just finished sending an extended screed email to a friend of mine about new environmental policies, but, having gotten it out of my system, I'm going to do a quick bullet point break down here, just to see if I can generate some noise.

• The current environmental track we're on will fail us before the end of this century.
• The ostrich approach will not work any longer.
• The twentieth century brought us dams to bring water to deserts and power to people who didn't want to insulate their houses (see Cadillac Desert's section on the Washington State region).
• The twentieth century also brought us coal fired plants and atomic energy, neither of which is even remotely clean.
• We need a new energy policy. While every technology has its problems, no one said "let's wait on the internal combustion engine until we can get 99% efficiency." They simply built cars that were terribly wasteful and built an industry. Slowly the technology caught up. Why not apply this technique to wind and solar (and anything else you care to name)?
• We can pay for all of these programs by trashing the Farm Bill and rewriting it. New Zealand proved you don't need subsidies to have sustainable agriculture. In fact, is any other sector of the economy showed such dismal return on investment, do you think they'd get a bailout? ;-) [just my little joke]
  

Is it Kosher to use another blog as your citation?
And even if we don't improve the environment, the Farm Bill is crap. Let's rewrite it. If you disagree or want to complain about the loss of the food subsidy portion of the Farm Bill, let me know and I'll give my views on that failure of American conscience.