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..... And Nero fiddled while Rome burned?

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..... And Nero fiddled while Rome burned? https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_Wyr0xZjMqTX0p6Y01XeGc4Qnc GangaPrasad Rao Energy, Environmental and Mineral Economist .......So says history, but an evolutionary millennium later, are we any different? We have, across a century of fossil-fuel powered electricity and road-motoring, reduced the very life-giving air we breathe. From a warming greenhouse that melts glaciers, icebergs, even ice-continents, cardiac stress due warmer evenings, climate and urban heat-island-externality-reinforcing indoor air-conditioning, sea-erosion and drowning islands from rising oceans, typhoons and storm surges, the impacts are real and palpable. Why then do we turn a blind eye to an exacerbating disaster? Didn’t the Political we elected delay solar and wind technology decades, and whittle down a carbon tax/permit regime until and eventually it turned a non-binding joke of the century? And what do we have now? A run-away global smokestack economy that has more