Will America lead the world in renewable energy, or simply rely on tax cuts for the rich to lead the way?

Problem is with people like you who like to cry and whine about renewable energy this and that but are not even directly associated in the discoveries of those new green technologies you want everyone else to get involved with. You mentioned in one answer that you are an econ graduate. Why economics and not Environmental Studies?

Because you too are just out to make money for yourself so you can enjoy your life exactly like the politicians and economists and bankers and business that you say exploit the poor. And it's much easier to pin the blame on someone else and make them responsible for something you could have easily done something about you try isn't it? You drive a car, you use electricity, you even eat processed factory made foods.

All use non green renewable energy. Where is your indignation against the non environmentally friendly resources that you use? Ah, there lies the hypocrisy doesn't it?

And please stop saying "we" when you talk about the US because you are not American and you don't live here. You said so yourself. Or are you a liar too?

Fossil fuel is awesomely cheap. Nuclear and hydro can maybe compete on price alone, but have other problems - most projects are so large that it is very hard to arrange financing and construction. Until very recently, no other technology was price competitive.

Wind power can now compete on price, photovoltaics are about 2 years away. There are about to be some major changes in the market, but even with price competitiveness, it will take about 20 years for the industry to get the capacity to satisfy the market.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.