by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 09.29.07

In Germany, that is what they call the development of low-carbon or no-carbon technologies needed to wean economies off fossil fuels. In theory, the wealth and the jobs - entire industries perhaps - created by the technologies would help to offset the potentially horrendous costs of reducing carbon output.

Eric Reguly quotes a report that suggested the third industrial revolution is well under way in Germany. It said the new energy and ecology-related fields are becoming the country's top job creation engine. "By 2020, this sector will be employing more people than mechanical engineering or the automotive industry," said the writer of the report. Already, Germany has created about 250,000 jobs in areas ranging from fuel cells and electric cars to wind power and energy-efficient houses (the German Passivhaus dispenses with conventional furnaces for heating).

So why do North American politicians keep saying that the cost of Kyoto is too high? As the head of the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) said: "You can make money out of climate change. Capitalism can change with a changing market. Lehman Brothers has more environmental experts than the UNEP." ~ Globe and Mail

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Even the old dogs in the higher-up positions of (US) corporations are sometimes too lazy to learn new tricks. Besides, they are too old to suffer from the consequences of their wrongdoings, so why would they care? They have each and every thing they want in life: money!

Replying to [macs2005]: I want to know second industrial revolution took place?

Regarding green technology, I think EU and Japan will take the lead in bringing in new technologies compared to US. US is sleeping and it is now incapable of taking sensible decisions right now.

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Second Industrial Revolution  1865 - 1900 according to wikepedia.com

http://library.thinkquest.org/C0116084/IR2.htm

The second Industrial Revolution proved more drastic, not only in inventions, but in social and government policies and reforms. Art and culture flourished and was transformed into many different and unique styles. The first Industrial Revolution had forever changed England, and later the world. England was now ready for another change, as life with machinery had already been assimilated into society.

The second Industrial Revolution utilized the power of electricity to help them develop their technology and help social and home life. Michael Faraday, a British scientist, demonstrated how an electric current could be made. This concept and principle is still in use today. Electricity improved life by supplying people with light, and electricity to power machines. Communications improved as a result of electricity. The telephone and telegraph were the first communicational devices that were for public use. With the development of technology, radio waves were discovered. Now messages could be sent over long distances in virtually no time.

macs2005

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Let's leave dreamland behind for a moment (though you should go back later, for your own well-being). Tesla and others have invented ways to obtain energy that is basically for free. Solar energy is a very short step in that direction, but still far away from that goal.

Right now the criminal energy cartels won't allow any "free" energy to succeed, and before you don't see that, there won't be a real "Third Industrial Revolution".

Just a reminder: in the 60's more than 350 American nuclear scientists died under extremely suspicious conditions. Only after that was nuclear energy deemed a "clean" source of energy, and nobody has the guts to challenge that definition.

Of course you have to pay for this energy (or the electric energy derived from it), and if the "owners of energy" go so far to protect their interests, how could anybody count on an indutrial revolution anytime soon? As long as we have Exxon and their ilk around, you can forget it!