The World Energy Picture – Free Report on Recent Survey

Last month, 2GreenEnergy conducted a survey in which over 300 participants provided their perception on the type of future that mankind is likely to face, given the way in which we generate and consume energy. Some are optimistic that the world can innovate itself out of the environmental mess it’s made over the last 100 years; others are deeply pessimistic – and offer their reasoning. The full report will be available on the “Truth” page shortly.

Readers will note that only 19% disagree with the proposition that climate change will have disastrous consequences by 2030. However, 62% agree that we have more pressing problems right now than worrying about what 2030 will look like in terms of energy use, climate change, etc.

While some will find this alarming, it’s hardly unexpected. Even the man who is accredited with the discovery of global warming (V. Ramanathan of Scripps Institute, who, in 1972, correctly predicted a measurable increase in the temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere by 1980) understands the lack of concern. “People have a finite capacity for dealing with disaster,” he told me in an interview. “When things are blowing up all around them right now, it is a sad truth that the majority of people are unable to process the gravity of a situation that will cause vast destruction decades hence.”

So where is all this going? I hope you’ll download the report and check it out.