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Showing posts with label frying the planet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label frying the planet. Show all posts

Friday, August 9, 2013

The greatest misallocation of resources in human history






Excerpt from Michael Klare's "How to fry a planet"


According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), an inter-governmental research organization based in Paris, cumulative worldwide investment in new fossil-fuel extraction and processing will total an estimated $22.87 trillion between 2012 and 2035, while investment in renewables, hydropower, and nuclear energy will amount to only $7.32 trillion. In these years, investment in oil alone, at an estimated $10.32 trillion, is expected to exceed spending on wind, solar, geothermal, biofuels, hydro, nuclear, and every other form of renewable energy combined.


(see also a previous post on "The Frog")