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Seminar 9
“Future of Planet Earth” Participant Statement
Paris,
France | June 3–5, 2008
Eric J. Chaisson
What are the three most critical challenges facing Planet Earth going forward?
ritical challenges now facing planet Earth are energy, energy, and energy – understanding past energy-driven changes that have literally created us, recognizing the importance of energy use in our global society today, and demonstrating sensitivity to our descendents’ future energy needs on and beyond Earth:
1. Energy – specifically, the flow of energy per unit mass – is the single most unifying process that gave rise to increasing complexity over the course of billions of years, thus helping to produce galaxies, stars, planets, and life forms.
2. Energy – especially the rate of energy density usage, or per capita power consumption – is what maintains, indeed drives, our civilization today more than any other dynamic factor.
3. Energy – again
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