Energy and Environment

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Energy and Environment

• The Real Challenge

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Impact of Energy Use

• Produces most of the indoor and outdoor air
  pollution
• Produces most of our radioactive waste
• Produces most of the hydrocarbon and trace-metal
  pollution of soil and ground water
• Enables humans to add oil to oceans
• GHG and climate change

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Economic Development Requires high Energy Use

• 1900 ? 100 Million Capitalists to build markets
• 2000 ? 2.5 Billion new capitalists
• Energy is the core of the environmental problem
• Environment is the core of the energy problem
• The energy-environment intersection is the core
  of the sustainable-prosperity problem