CNN quoted the president-elect:
“We have the opportunity now to create jobs all across this country, to re-power America, to redesign how we use energy, to think about how we are increasing efficiency, to make our economy stronger, make us more safe, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and make us competitive for decades to come, even as we are saving the planet,” Obama said.
Reordering those priorities hierarchically:
1. saving the planet
2. to redesign how we use energy,
3. to re-power America,
4. to think about how we are increasing efficiency,
5. create jobs all across this country,
6. to make our economy stronger,
7. make us competitive for decades to come
8. make us more safe,
9. reduce our dependence on foreign oil
recognizing global threat of disruptive climate change from green house gas emissions
1. fix causes and effects of global warming
- prevent worsening
2. redesign how modern economies use energy
- shift to carbon neutral energy use
3a. Electricity generation for public utility grid
- build new distribution grid
- replace polluting coal generation plants
- reduce then eliminate burning of fossil fuels in power generation
- capture and store carbon dioxide
5a. Create jobs in energy sector
3b. Industrial uses of energy
5b. Create jobs transforming industries
- reduce then eliminate industrial burning of fossil fuels
9a. reduce imports of foreign oil for industry
3c. Transport
5c. Create jobs Changing to carbon-neutral transport systems
- transition to new cars
- expand mass transit
- change consumer behavior in transport
- reduce then eliminate
9b. reduce then eliminate burning of fossil fuels in transport
3d. change consumer uses of energy
- non-energy sources of greenhouse gases
- reverse depletion of forests as carbon sink
- reduce agricultural methane
4. improve efficiency of existing and future energy use
- other chemical emissions
- CFC's, etc.
- mitigate immediate effects
- adapt to near-term changes until preventive strategies take hold
- change regulatory frameworks to deal with climate change
6. Strengthen economy
- by removing immediate and long-range threat in 1.
- by taking the opportunity of the redesign in 2. to fix other weaknesses in the economy
7. Make economy competitive by
- avoiding and dealing with problems like 1.
- eliminating carbon risk industries before they become uncompetitive in a changing regulatory framework
- take an early lead in emerging industries
8. Make nations more safe
- by preventing the disruptions of climate change through 1.
- avoiding the creation of environmental refugees
- avoiding conflicts over disrupted resources
- eliminating the threats to oil supply
9a. reducing the dependence of countries on imported oil
