This group will explore the issues of global energy challenges. It takes energy to do work and adaptation to climate change, food production, and many other challenges will require adequate energy supplies that do not pollute the environment further.
In Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (W. W. Norton, 2008, online as a single PDF file), Lester Brown crunches the numbers and recommends we embark on a "WWII" style effort to build windmills. (In the 1940's we stopped building cars and produced phenomenal quanties of planes, tanks, an ships.) He's also friendly to solar.
What I find lacking in most discussions of current energy challenges is an appreciation of the shear amount of fossil fuels we use. To me, the conversation must include how we change our behavior to use less and the affect that will have on society. In other words, conservation and renewables are only part of the solution. The rest comes from not demanding so much from Earth.
Energy Challenges
9 members
Description
Size of the Energy Conundrum
by Andy Streich
May 30, 2008
References for the diagram are here.
In Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (W. W. Norton, 2008, online as a single PDF file), Lester Brown crunches the numbers and recommends we embark on a "WWII" style effort to build windmills. (In the 1940's we stopped building cars and produced phenomenal quanties of planes, tanks, an ships.) He's also friendly to solar.
What I find lacking in most discussions of current energy challenges is an appreciation of the shear amount of fossil fuels we use. To me, the conversation must include how we change our behavior to use less and the affect that will have on society. In other words, conservation and renewables are only part of the solution. The rest comes from not demanding so much from Earth.