2 Million Petition For Sustainable Energy
16 August 2002 - 5:00am
Technologies such as solar home systems, micro hydroelectricity generators, small wind turbines, wave energy and biogas are viable energy alternatives.
"Next month's Earth Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, will be presented with a 2 million-strong petition demanding renewable energy for the world's poorest 2 billion people...nations promoted by the petition have no access to electricity on a wide scale, and current power supplies come from unreliable, dangerous or climate-damaging sources, or all three...We can try to run from pollution, but we can't hide. Climate change has made the whole world our backyard."
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Wired, August 12, 2002
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