Fred Krupp's New Book Hopeful for Future

Today Environmental Defense’s President Fred Krupp described to Environment and Energy News how legislation signed by President Bush to lessen air pollution spawned an escalation in innovative clean energy technology. However he was referring to the first President Bush’s signing of the Clean Air Act Amendment in 1990, which created incentives for companies to invest in technologies that would lessen acid rain. Krupp compares that past success with the potential of today’s American entrepreneurs to become billionaires by introducing forms of clean green technology to the $600 energy sector.

Krupp and journalist Miriam Horn have just released what Al Gore calls a “fascinating book” entitled “Earth: The Sequel - The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming.” The book details why there are reasons to be hopeful about the energy future, and discourages people from doom and gloom pessimism about looming environmental catastrophes. In his interview, Krupp says that people feeling powerless is “the biggest obstacle to [their] participating in our democracy.”