Col. Dan Nolan (Ret.) at Big Government:
My participation in “Carbon Nation” came about quite fortuitously. After I retired from the Army, I was working as a government analyst, looking at the tactical implications of energy security. I was leaving that position to try to encourage commercial interest to get involved with the Department of Defense to help solve what had been a strategic dilemma since the ’70s: oil dependance. A friend asked me to speak to a documentary film maker about my concerns. I met Pete Byck outside the U.S. Capital building on a bright spring day and tried to tell the story of DOD’s efforts to solve a national security issue.
Having received a post graduate degree in National Security and Strategic Planning from the U.S. Naval War College, I put those tools to work to understand the larger implications of our addiction to fossil fuels. What I concluded was that climate change was a concern, the economic drain was unfortunate and that the national security implications were terrifying. …
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“Carbon Nation” tells a story that must be heard. There are people throughout the world who are taking action, but leadership at the national and international level is lacking. We have “islands of excellence” in the quest for solutions, but we lack vision. To paraphrase a good book I read, without vision, the people perish. At no time has this had greater meaning. It is my sincere hope that “Carbon Nation” supplies the impetus to change, to find our vision and to plot a new course into the future.
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