エネルギー長官と環境保護局長官の発表風景
President-elect Obama Announces Environment and Energy Team
これを紹介した以下のエネルギーバレティンの記事、の方が重要かな??
The peak oil crisis: parsing Obama's remarks
http://energybulletin.net/node/47517
by Tom Whipple
では、しょっぱなからオバマ氏は飛ばしています。
”In his first paragraph of his remarks, the President-elect got right to his key point; "the future of our economy and national security is inextricably linked to one challenge: energy." He then said "All of us know the problems rooted in our addiction to foreign oil - it constrains our economy, shifts wealth to hostile regimes, and leaves us dependent on unstable regions. These urgent dangers are eclipsed only by the long-term threat of climate change, which - unless we act - will lead to drought and famine abroad, devastating weather patterns and terrible storms on our shores, and the disappearance of our coastline at home."”
つまり、オバマ氏は短期のピークオイル危機と、より生死を分ける長期の温暖化危機についての認識をしっかり持っているといえます。
”Instead, Mr. Obama used a more circuitous formulation; "yet our dependence on foreign oil has only grown, even as the world's resources are disappearing." Getting the words "oil" and "disappearing resources" into the same line is a perfectly acceptable way to acknowledge peak oil - at least for now.”
ピークオイル論を聴衆が受け入れやすい形で説いているとしています。
”The new administration's plans make a lot of sense once one grasps the notion that liquid fuel shortages are imminent, and that the planet's climate is deteriorating at an alarming rate. ”
受け手がこのオバマ政権の方針の含意を認識できれば、やろうとしていることも一気にあきらかになります。
”At first there will be major resistance to the administration's proposals from the established interests, who do not yet understand what is happening and that there really is no other choice but make changes.”
”While, eventually changes will come, the key question is how much worse things have to get before a critical mass forms that is willing to give in to the inevitable.”
そう、痛みに耐えてよくがんばった、といいつつ患者さんが死んでしまった、ということにならないようにしなければなりません。