The United States and the world as a whole is constantly growing in population. Thus, more energy is needed to meet the needs of everyone around the world. Developed nations, such as United States are using predominately more energy than third world or developing countries. We need to focus our efforts on decreasing our consumpation of energy. Without it, we would not have electrcity, new devloping technologies, transportation, and food production among other things. Although we need energy to develop such things, we are using way to much and that is why we are beginning to think of ideas about being "green". Currently, most of our power is coming from power plants and it seems it should be able to still provide energy. However, as the demand increases another form of providing energy must be used or possibly developing a way that excess energy could be stored for later use. Everyone should consider the use of windmills, solar panels, or nuclear energy to help make our world a "greener" place.
Another issue to consider is the limited amount of fossil fuels like carbon and oil. For example, according to the global education project, the United States finds one barrel of oil for every four we consume(http://www.theglobaleducationproject.org/earth/energy-supply.php). It can also be noted that using such fossil fuels causes pollution and then the earth traps a lot of energy that should be irradiated towards space. With more gases, the temperature of our planet begins to rise. Again if we look at alternative sources of energy we could help decrease the amount of energy needed from fossil fuels.
To reiterate, energy consumption should be seriously considered if we want our future generatrions to continue to improve technology.
-Brinnie
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