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Choosing your energy sources, choosing your future

Yves Martin
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How do you expect the world's energy needs to change?

Without major changes in the behavior of people living in industrialized countries, world energy consumption is bound to jump by two-thirds by 2030, according to the IEA.
A North American uses nine times more power than a Chinese; our industrialized nations, chief among them the USA, do everything they can to sell their technologies and lifestyle to developing countries, through the “mass persuasion weapon” of broadcasting their images worldwide. Electric power consumption in China, for example, has crept up by a third over the last five years, though apparently not as much as its motorization rate. Can anyone blame the Chinese?

How do you expect the world's energy needs to change?