IN A PREVIOUS article we mentioned that germany is capable of getting half of its energy from solar energy systems on any given day. And because of this, there is a chance the world, the human race may not destroy itself.
The germans plan to continue expanding their solar energy assets, and will perhaps someday operate the entire country on sunlight, in which case humanity will be saved. Recently the germans decided to shut down all their nuclear power facilities, so confident are they in the future of solar, and its comparative safety.
It may well be that before long germans ceases all investment in oil, coal, or natural gas as well. If germany can succeed in deriving half ist energy from sunlight, then it can succeed in deriving all of it similarly, and, with a lot of hard work and adjustments, so can the rest of us.
The same frantic determination by all humanity to go solar that the united states demonstrated in developing the nuclear bomb during war time will accomplish the goal of a world using only clean green energy.
Whatever you think your biggest problem is, chances are there is a bigger one you haven't thought about. Soon, for instance, we will have to start helping several billion people, and thousands of big cities, move inland from their current location on the ocean's shores.
Otherwise, they'll drown...you will help, won't you? The amount of effort, money, and energy required for this will be staggering, probably sufficient to require all the military assest of all the world's military organizatons to convert to the massive evacuation project.
We simply won't have time to attack or defend, and if we continue arguing, attacking, and defendign anyway, we will have very little, if anything, to fight over. Thus, it becomes crucial to join together in common global projects; development and installation of solar energy, detection and deflection of incoming asteroids....
...exploration and colonization of outer space, as well as the cleaning of carbon from the atmosphere, and the reversal of global warming and sea level rise. Desalinization and moving of sea water inland to desert areas also comes to mind.
The work is cut out for us, "shovel ready", as we like to say. Its time to begin.
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