Dystopia or the inevitable doom that looms over the head of our future has been scaring the life out of us for quite some time now. As long as we are on the path to pulp up Earth’s natural resources, this unsettling thought will be on our heads. But is it true also true that to get the complete picture you need to step back and get the complete view. One need to look beyond what is good and what is bad to predict the future, our future.
And our future, in practical terms, may not be that bright but there is enough room for us to make it into a sustainable one. Obviously we have all the indicators like melting ice sheets in Arctic region, prevailing El Nino, Temperature shooting up like a bullet in 2015, that show the future we are heading to mind not be a bring one. But we have ensured that we can take step back to safer and sustainable future.
Here are 5 factors that may be the founding stone of a sustainable future where our children can live freely.
Cheaper Solar Energy
Solar Power price have shot down tremendously in the last 5 to 7 years. The rates have fallen from $6.3 per watt in 2007 to $3.1 in 2014. The fall has managed to attract more and more users to install this energy efficient and reusable energy source. "The sun could be the world's largest source of electricity by 2050," the International Energy Agency says. The Earth is becoming hot and hot, it is up to us how to make the most of it. Image Credit: finetubes.co.uk
The world spends twice as much as in clean energy than any other energy
In 2015, all the expenditure in the world on clean energy was $286 billion that is more than what we spent on Oil and other extinguishable energy source. We did spend about $130 billion on such energy sources. This was reported by a U.N. Environment Program report. Image Credit: heartland.org
Electric Cars are popular and stylized than ever before
There was a time when muscle cars and heavily engineered cars were the want of the hour. But as the time has passed away, people have developed the liking towards the cars that are crazy fast and are energy fuel efficient. Entrepreneur Elon Musk’s Tesla is a brand that manufactures electric cars recently came out with a $35000 car that is affordable and amazingly smart car. Image Credit: Tesla
China aligns with the world to make the world a better place
When one of the superpowers of the world is not doing anything towards the betterment of the environment then why would the rest of the world do it? Well that is not case anymore with China, aligning with the rest of the world as China is taking steps to clean up its air. A five-year plan was announced by the country earlier this year that states that China will do more to cut its pollution than previously thought. The World Resources Institute in a blog post said that, “With China's new target for an 18% reduction in carbon-intensity from 2015 levels, we estimate that China will actually reduce its carbon intensity 48% from 2005 levels by 2020,"
China has a paradox wrapped around its neck, on one hand it is the biggest annual polluter of the atmosphere and on the other it is the world’s largest clean energy market. Image Credit: Telegraph
Finally the Paris Agreement is a major step forward to make the world a last longer than ever
December 2015 was the time when more than 190 nations of the country joined hands together and pledged to tackle the world’s most dangerous problem: Climate Change. The Paris Agreement which happened in the wake of the Paris terror attacks displays that the world is more united on this issue than on any other. The Paris Agreement sets the bold goal of ridding the world of fossil fuel pollution this century -- and limiting warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius. Image Credit: desmog.ca
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