of the economic boom of the 1990s, America enters the new millennium nearly 20 percent above its Kyoto target. RICHARD L. LAWSON, Pres /CEO, National Mining Assn: In the next 20 years, the nation's electricity requirements will be in creased by 60 percent. We'll go from 3 trillion kilowatt hours presently to about 4.6 trillion kilowatt hours in 2020. INTERVIEWER: You're talking about America? RICHARD L. LAWSON: That's the United States. INTERVIEWER: Why does a rich country like America need to consume more energy? RICHARD L. LAWSON: It is a matter of all of the things that you and I see around us. A computer on the Internet uses one kilowatt per hour in use. And you think about the explosion of all of those computers not only in the country but in modernized and developing countries around the world, you begin to get an idea of what tomorrow looks like. MARTY HOFFERT, New York University: The total energy consumption of all of humankind at this point in time is about 10 terawatts. That's 10 trillion watts. That's the rate at which primary energy is used. That's the rate at which we are burning gas and oil and coal. That's 10 trillion watts. The projections - the so-called "business as usual" projection - is that over the next 100 years. the demand for energy will increase roughly by a factor of 4. NARRATOR: These projections reveal just how stark the problem really is. The world must somehow stabilize greenhouse gas