Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, author of Power to the People, mentions the threats of oil and coal to the world. He depicts how these energy generating system are destructive to the environment, destabilizes governments and, promotes war and terrorist attacks with facts and historical events. Nevertheless, he states that emerging technologies and knowledge are creating a “quiet revolution” which is “upending the energy business”. Even though the facts are outdated in this excerpt, it still gives hope to the reader that many innovative technologies are on the market; whether it was the fuel cell car in 2003 or today’s electrical cars. This revolution is inevitable and it’s bigger than any other revolution we have gone through in the last century.
This is very important because our fossil fuel base economy is creating conflict in the world and disrupting the order in nature. These violations of the most basic laws of nature are destabilizing societies. In my opinion, it may not be the root of most of our issues, but it’s certainly aggravating them at a very rapid pace. Nevertheless, the response of creating new technologies portrays the need the world has to change the model we have. There’s no way life will seize to exist if we continue following our current model.
Many great technologies are emerging to the market. As consumers we have the power to choose. We can vote with our dollar and invest in these new more efficient systems. Nevertheless the solution doesn’t lie in making our current model and the technologies we have now more efficient. This will only make us more dependent on them and eventually we will be facing the same problems we have today.
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