Not exact matches
If the world continues to accept disappearing tree - cover, land degradation, the
expansion of deserts, the loss of
plant and animal species, air and water pollution, and the changing chemistry of the atmosphere it will also have to accept economic decline and social disintegration... such disintegration would bring human suffering on a
scale that has no precedent...» 7
But as the 100MW solar farms going up in France, and the massive
expansion of plans for a San Antonio solar
plant from 50MW to 400 show, the
scale of what's impressive has changed somewhat.
CCS has not yet been commercially deployed at any centralized power
plant; the existing nuclear industry, based on reactor designs more than a half - century old and facing renewed public concerns of safety, is in a period of retrenchment, not
expansion; and existing solar, wind, biomass, and energy storage systems are not yet mature enough to provide affordable baseload power at terawatt
scale.