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All these ravaging threats can be effectively dealt with, if the world can agree to jointly stop all fossil fuel burning permanently and reverse the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from two centuries of profligate and wasteful fuel burning.
Both these countermeasures are going to be expensive and their complete implementation will be very time consuming. World governments will have to commit a small percentage of their GNP to jointly reach this overarching goal. It will take at least 50 years to change the world over to using only clean, emission free energy after reaching a worldwide agreement to stop fossil fuel burning.
World governments will only be able to agree on such an ambitious project, if the consequences of related expenditures on their economies can be tolerated. Changing over from fossil fuel combustion to renewable energy sources will be acceptable only, when economic growth will either continue undiminished or is going to increase.
Wealth of nations is intimately related to their energy consumption. While one can reasonably expect that the rise of individual energy use will eventually flatten for highly developed countries, it will continue to increase for industrially less developed countries. Therefore, the pressure of population growth on energy consumption will be unavoidable for many countries for many decades to come. Global overheating can only be avoided by restricting the combustion of fossil fuels first and outlawing it altogether eventually.
The unavoidably increasing use of nuclear fuels will be accepted by nations only, if a more effective worldwide Non-Proliferation Treaty can be negotiated and if its fair and rigorous implementation can be assured.
Our present concept of energy production was useful for initiating the industrial revolution of the last centuries. We have now learned that fossil fuel burning is not sustainable and will harm the world irreversibly if not halted soon.
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These concepts are instead based on visions of lessened economic opportunities, more government intervention, population control, slowed growth of developing nations, restricted individual mobility, and decreasing personal wealth.
New energy concepts must be based on renewable energy sources and on technologies that do not harm the Earth’s ecology. Present generations must fulfill an unwritten covenant between past and future generations.
Each generation must strive to leave a better world with more opportunities and less hardship for their progeny.