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Solar Hydrogen: Powering the New Millennium |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / THE ENERGY REFORMATION |
| Author: Roy Mcalister |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1999 |
| Size: 2,266 Words, 14,913 Characters |
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Virtually everyone seeks a better environment. To provide our families with healthful and attractive environments, many of us make large investments to buy homes in landscaped areas with paved streets, modern sewer systems, and city water distribution, along with underground delivery of electricity and natural gas. Vacationers travel around the globe to places with great environments. Life savings are often spent to retire in a better environment.
From this perspective, wealth is a measure of the ability to have a good environment. To a large extent, this ability has been enhanced by the ongoing Industrial Revolution, and this revolution, in turn, has been fueled by various sources of energy. As the Industrial Revolution matured in the early 1930s, anthropologist Leslie White observed t...
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...untless miracles during the billions of years before human appearance on Earth that we now have a benevolent environment to support us. We must do everything possible to protect this environment, including its diversity of life-forms, that we depend upon. We must dedicate ourselves to defining and achieving the grand purpose of civilization and attain sustainable prosperity without pollution.
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