A Talk with Jeffery Ball

A young man with neatly cowmbed brown, fluffy hair walks down the lobby torward us. He has the air of importance and quickness about him. This is Jeffery Ball, Chief Environmental Editor for the Wall Street Journal. We were lucky enough to get 10 minutes out of his buisy life to talk to him about his work. My partner, Marandah, ask him two questions, and I followed up with another two. My questions went "Some of the newest technology in clean energy cars include electric and hybrid technology using efficient lithium ion batteries. But what about the Human Rights side of this technology. What is your response to HU activists statement that the U.S. is exploiting The Democratic Republic of the Congo's lithium supply?" He made the statement that we have to be very careful in our quest torward clean energy. With energy like clean coal, eventually we are going to have to get more coal from somewhere, and with nuclear, we have to harvest the Uranium from somewhere too. His overall statement, I belive was we can't have our need and desire for clean energy get in the way of developing nations. I really had a good time talking with this very educated man.