Given all the latest news and evidence we have been presented with regarding climate change and the push to use less fossil fuels etc, I have been wondering why we (as a community/society) have been so slow to take up the challenge or “cause” and use more energy efficient sources of power in our homes.
I mean, there are all sorts of cash-backs, discounts, incentives, rebates, you name it, available to us if we install energy saving devices in our homes. Whether that be solar panels, slow-flow shower heads, insulation, etc there is even a discount available on a mortgage if we start building a “green house” (about 0.6%).
Anyway, so my question is why more people have not began to make the change to clean energy?
It cannot be money, as the economics are plain to grasp in terms of energy bills versus costs etc. So what is it?
Is it because our neighbours don’t have solar panels for instance so we don’t want to seem naive or different? (Keeping up with the Jones´ but in reverse?)
In California it has been shown that once a street (house) begins with energy saving devices, a “green” bent, than it quickly begins to spread from street to street and suburb to suburb. The word gets out……….
So is it just that we are afraid of being laughed at? Or are we really non-believers about global warming after all?
If it’s not economic, what is it that stops us from doing something about our fossil fuel dependence?
I hope its not sheer indolence….
