That we live in a global economy we are only just beginning to genuinely understand. If we allow developing nations to follow in our fossil fuel laden footsteps, we are asking for trouble. This is a lie. I am in a little rowboat in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. All the power I need to desalinate seawater, to type this letter on a laptop computer, to listen to the weather report on a short-wave radio, to run my global positioning system and to communicate over a satellite telephone comes from two small solar panels.
Solar power IS workable as are a number of other renewable energy sources.
These energy sources may not be workable in the United States where our addiction to fossil fuels is well established. Making the switch would be expensive and inconvenient, but hardly unworkable. That's a load of garbage. Fine, let's not begin the energy revolution in the United States or Europe or any other place where the economy is based on tapping into a centralized power grid. Let's begin with countries that are barely on the map, places like Zanskar, Ladok or Pashmir.