If we can spend $1 trillion on the Iraq war, then we can afford $1 trillion for a new American Dream.

$250 BILLION FOR CARBON SEQUESTRATION AND BIOREMEDIATION

The President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology underscores the importance of carbon sequestration: “A much larger science-based CO2 sequestration program should be developed… This is very high-risk, long-term R&D that will not be undertaken by industry alone without strong incentives.” A farm of humungous radiators-on-goal-posts that pull carbon from the atmosphere? Bacteria that eat radioactive waste? Municipal waste treatment technologies that use no chemicals and produce not sludge but potable water? We need to aggressively accelerate the development and diffusion of such new technologies.