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Jimmy Carter: America's Greatest Environmental President
President Carter had a visionary understanding of the climate change crisis ahead, which only grows more profound with each passing year.
He fished in the nearby rivers and lakes and learned to castrate a pig before he was old enough to drive and ate family meals of slaughtered steer brains mixed with scrambled eggs. “A lot of what we know about distributed energy resources can be traced back to encouraging cogeneration, which is a much more efficient way to generate electricity, by capturing the waste heat and using it for some other industrial process,” says Van Nostrand. Barely six months into Carter’s term, Frank Press, the President’s science adviser sent him a memorandum summarizing the threat from the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the warming that would result from it.
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