Sustainable Energy, Consumption, and Lifestyles
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Trusted Clothes (Unpublished)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2016
By the end of the century, I would project the majority of energy will be either nuclear or solar (or both). Those forms of energy production will lead to different forms of consumption.
The kinds of things that the world needs are different sources of energy to meet the increasing demands of energy consumption. We can live sustainable lifestyles. These can be moderate in benefit, if diligent.
On the other hand, we do need to take into account the increasing needs of technology in our lives. Our collective energy consumptions are higher in spite of the increased efficiency of technology.
This is a common trend. This will be a continuing trend. However, the energy consumption will continue to increase because of the higher number of devices in our homes, in our cars, and our buses, in our schools, and, even possibly, in our clothing.
Even so, the efficiency will continue. Our knowledge of energy production and consumption gives us options, and those options breed both higher consumption and greater efficiency. It’s just that the efficiency isn’t keeping up with the consumption.
It can be counterproductive to use terms like ‘good’ and ‘evil’, or ‘dirty energy’. They don’t mean much, really. Because this can lead to simply labeling something as good or bad in terms of emotional valence, emotional value.
Rather, descriptions of impacts on individual lives and the reasons for certain things being better in the long term might be more effective, though less emotive. Solar energy is an increasingly desirable source of energy because the price of highly hydrocarbon producing energy sources continues to go up while the price for alternative energies such as solar, geothermal, wind, and someone, keep going down.
If you take the same amount of energy produced in the cost of producing that energy for each source of energy, alternative energy sources are becoming more economically viable. Tie that to a lifestyle, or make it part of it, we got it made.
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