Operation Green
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YOUNG: Members of the Veteran's Conservation Corps in Washington. Other Veterans are coming home with strong views about the energy we use, and the wars we wage.
YOUNG: It's a far cry from Dan Leary's last job- he was an army captain stationed in Kuwait. Leary said what he saw in the desert left him determined to start a clean-energy company back home.
LEARY: I was. I was. And I think it's important for our generation to get on top of this because I think anything that we can do to bring better security to our nation is less tasks that, frankly, our children, our grandchildren are going to have to deal with. Energy and water, and a whole number of things that lead ultimately back to...we just have to have much more sustainable practices as a society.
YOUNG: Do you get the sense that your fellow Veterans have had kind of an awakening about energy issues?
LEARY: I think that we all have. I think that the Veterans have been able to see it first hand-what is sustainable and what's not sustainable. As soon as you've seen a massive desalinization plant running on oil that has to be pumped from thousands of feet below the ground to sustain large populations, you understand just how fragile the whole system is. And I think that's what Veterans certainly understand first-hand. And the more that we can generate on site, it does things, more than just national security, it's really just the right thing to do.
YOUNG: Leary's not alone in that thinking. A recent poll of Iraq and Afghanistan Vets found an overwhelming majority see our energy policy undermining national security. And just over 70% support policy changes to promote clean energy and address climate change. The poll was sponsored by the group Vote Vets, which is also part of a rolling public outreach program called Operation Free........
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