Sentences with phrase «concentrated efficient source»

unfortunately, malthus was all too right, and we are likely in a period of severe population overshoot, the result of our over-reliance on the planet's most concentrated efficient source of cheap energy, nurtured over 100 million years — and wasted in little more than a century.

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Instead of attempting to throttle the economic growth of western civilization I believe efforts should be concentrated on developing more efficient energy sources such as exploiting our plentiful natural gas reserves.