NAACP panel: Black community needs green future � peoplesworld
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - "As a society, as a world, we can no longer continue our dependence on fossil fuels," Texas state Sen. Rodney Ellis said at a workshop here at the NAACP's 101st Annual Convention on July 11.
"We make up about 5 percent of the world's population," Ellis continued, "but we consume more than 20 percent of the world's energy. When we talk about sustainability, that's not sustainable, that's not right."
In fact, the United States consumes more energy than any other country in the world.
"Green jobs will be the wave of the future," said Ellis, a Democrat who represents Houston in the Texas Legislature. "We have to diversify our economy with clean sources of energy."
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