For example, just as those preoccupied with «justice» have paid little attention to the subsistence farmer, so also they have paid little attention to the world's most
urgent energy crisis — the shortage of firewood.
Not exact matches
Although acknowledging the considerable confusion and disagreement over factual
energy data, the document leaves no doubt that an
energy crisis exists and that
energy questions are
urgent.
Recently I was invited to give a talk at the UNAI - START (United Nations Academic Impact — Science and Technology Accelerating Rapid Transformation) conference, on the role of nanotechnology in developing new solutions for
energy, water, and health care — problems reaching
crisis proportion in our world and requiring
urgent action across all levels.
We have a planetary climate
crisis that requires
urgent change to our
energy and carbon pathway to avoid dangerous consequences for young people and other life on Earth.
«As Europe and other developed regions fail to take the
urgent action we need, people will be marching in solidarity with the communities on the frontlines of climate impacts and with the impacted workers, people will continue resisting fossil fuel extraction, and communities will carry on building the renewable, democratic
energy systems that are the solution to the climate
crisis.»
Susann Scherbarth, climate justice and
energy campaigner, Friends of the Earth Europe said: «To have any hope of tackling our climate
crisis, we need to see
urgent and ambitious action, led by those who caused the problem.
Developing countries can not adequately push for an
energy transformation or address the exorbitantly expensive climate
crisis without the
urgent funds pledged by developed countries, which overwhelmingly caused the climate
crisis,» said Dipti Bhatnagar of Friends of the Earth International.
The more people who understand both how
urgent the
crisis and how affordable and practical the solutions are, the more momentum we build for the transition to a clean
energy economy.
France Beinecke: President Obama can tackle the three most
urgent crises — the economy, volatile
energy, prices, and global warming — all at the same time.