Oh, and before people start the old tired "but if we invest in solar energy today, it'll give us a head start!" realize that those dollars and effort spent is a

Oh, and before people start the old tired "but if we invest in solar energy today, it'll give us a head start!" realize that those dollars and effort spent is a finite and limited resource. A dollar and its corresponding effort spent on solar energy can no longer be spent on anything else, because spending it uses it up. We HAVE to be smarter about how we spend our limited resources, or we're just paying feel-good lip service. Which, is okay: it's important to feel good! But, don't try and make other people feel bad because they're not making the same choice to ignore pragmatism and embrace feel-good jingoism ...