These are the good times

To the Editor:

Have we all failed to notice that these are the good times? Yes, we have!

We are in transition to a green energy future. That’s a really good future.

It is not a bad thing that fossil fuels are becoming obsolete. Within these next 50 years we are likely to be implementing fusion energy. Currently we are beginning to implement much safer and more efficient nuclear fission energy. We are already massively invested in clean solar and wind energy. All of this while our technologies for ways to more efficiently use energy are advancing every year. 

These are the good times. Unemployment is low. Inflation is low. Medical services are broader and better than ever before. Our phone, computer and travel technologies are amazing, low cost and empowering us as individuals. On top of all that our new energy technologies are leading us to a better world.

I was a child amidst the “duck-and-cover” cold-war fears of the 1950s. I was a young person when the body bags came home from war in the 1960s. I was an adult in the economic recession and gas shortages of the 1970s. There is always something to fear. The ending of the era of oil and gas is not one of those. Despite our fears, the 2020s post COVID are the good times. An environmentally healthy and prosperous green energy future beckons. We need not succumb to our fears. We can make it happen.

George Einar Bussey

Ashland