Green In the Media

I was recently watching old episodes of a television series, 30 Rock, that plays on NBC. I was watching and then recognized somebody,Al Gore as a guest star,who played a janitor. This show is a comedy, but it was from NBC's green week and Al Gore's cameo speech actually spoke a similar message to our class I believe. He proclaims working together and collective political action as the solution for our current climate crisis. I found it very interesting that he was on this show and that he sent a great message mixed with some good humor. He also speaks of encouraging us to go to our lawmakers and speak with our representatives to change laws. We need to restrict our pollution and begin to change everything we do towards new energy resources. I really think that media can continue to provide us with little insights like Al Gore did on the 30 Rock episode. On this link you can view this clip of Al Gore here.
In my opinion solar panels are the way to go. I had taken Consequences of Global Climate Change here with professor George Robinson and he showed us a map in class of Arizona with a tiny red square over a small portion of the desert. He explained that if this small red space was covered with solar panels that it cause generate enough electricity for our whole country. I no longer can find this map on ERES unfortunately. I understand that the tiny dot is probably thousands of square miles of solar panels. But if we developed solar panel plants all over the south in the U.S. we could accomplish this goal. I understand we're talking about billions of dollars. But the government should start to build these plants with the huge government budget. This would decrease our dependence on foreign oil imports and would give us practically no reason to be over in the middle east wasting our money on wars. Use the money for a beneficial cause!

Source:http://current.com/items/91511336_al-gore-on-30-rock.htm (NBC's 30 Rock)