introduction

No one particular desires a hotter, much more polluted and significantly less biodiverse planet, although most men and women want the contemporary lifestyles produced doable by low-cost power, abundant food and industrial productivity. Even now there are no technological limits to supplying these lifestyles to eight billion, or even to 11 billion, individuals, with far much less harm than we’re at present causing to the one particular planet all of us need to live on. Very expensive, for the reason that rebuilding power systems to make them carbon neutral, guaranteeing that land, water and other sources are applied sustainably, adapting...