109 million dollar investment in solar power near the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy The state is the only really effective power in the war against climate change and it needs to force businesses to come along with it Phil Hall February 1, 2008 8:00 AM It was Kurt Vonnegut, who admired the American volunteer firefighters very much, who said that the noblest war of all was the war against combustion. And don't his words ring true? Preventing global warming and reducing CO2 emissions is indeed the grandest and most noble war of the 21st century. But has society lost the habit of engaging in grand "good" wars ? Set aside, for the moment, the corporate driven wars like the recent Iraq oil war. In the 1930s and 40s, our governments organised the all-out fight against fascism and millions laid down their lives willingly to defeat the Nazis. The state is the only entity with the democrat...
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