Now this is interesting:
October 27th, 2006In 2003, the biologist Jeffrey Dukes calculated that the fossil fuels we burn in one year were made from organic matter “containing 44×10 to the 18 grams of carbon, which is more than 400 times the net primary productivity of the planet’s current biota.” In plain English, this means that every year we use four centuries’ worth of plants and animals.
Yep, you read that right. I don't know if he took into account the tremendous single cell reserves, but still that is an impressive concept: scooping up everything you see and burning it would provide enough energy for the world for less than a single day.
You can see the scope of the problem?
Solutions? INCLUDE converting waste and excess biological production into practical energy sources, include harvesting local generation technologies such as solar and wind to cut back demand, include ever-increasing efficiencies of the necessary evils of heating, transportation and manufacturing…
DOES NOT INCLUDE third world countries chopping down some of the few precious last reserves of true wild biodiversity…except the 'civilized' world is very good at saying 'Do as I say, not as I did': don't clear cut 95% of your virgin forest and commit genocide against your native peoples (cough cough United States).
