Such growth is linked to a warmer and longer growing season. And there are other examples of changes in flora, fauna, and Oceanic life. If it continues it will bring the melting of polar ice caps and thus world flooding. As a start, the international pact signed last December in Kyoto, Japan, binds industrial countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 5 percent below 1990 levels by the year 2010. Many environmentalists however much more is necessary.
Mankind appears trapped in a contradiction.
We strive for economic growth, and that means higher energy use. On present energy-use patterns, that means more greenhouse gasses. Huberlant is of course referring to renewable energy resources, like wind power and solar power. Critics will say these alternative sources have been around quite a long time now, and have had little practical impact on the energy dilemma. Denmark, a country which enjoys one of the highest living standards in the world, has set out to prove that mainline economic growth is compatible with alternative energy generation.