Everyone in the world is feeling the effect of global warming in one way or the other- melting ice some cases, rising sea level, hot weather and so in in other cases.
When it comes to climate change, everyone is concerned - the developed, developing and the underdeveloped countries altogether. To this effect, the United Nations in the year 2015 held a climate change conference in Paris to employ all countries to sign an agreement to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases which would result in keeping the globe's temperature at around 1.5 degree celcius.
It is very eveident that developed countries have the capacity to reduce their emissions, infact some of them almost completely in the nearest future, but this is hard to say for developing countries.
For developing countries, economic development is very paramount and the longing for the kind of good life that comes with it is in the citizens of these countries.
Economic development is strongly driven by energy security, while energy security is ensured by having a reasonable number of energy resources in the energy mix. Renewable energy resources and conventional fuels fall in this mix and it is the burning of the conventional fuels for energy security that contribute to global warming. The question then is - why don't renewable resources be deployed to achieve development? The answer is not that straightforward.
Conventional fuels are cheap and abundant in most of these countries but the problem with renewable energy technologies is that they are expensive to use on a large scale as conventional fuels are being used right now most especially for these countries because they are not as rich. Another important factor to note is that they have to import these technologies for use.
What is the answer for developing countries?
It is clearly shown that developing countries are caught between burning all the fuels they can burn to achieve development at a fast rate -after all the developed burnt so much during their early days of industrialization which scientists believe to have contributed majorly to the climate change of today (there are still debates about this)- or should they live up to the agreement signed with the UN.
What is your opinion? Should developing countries go all in for development? Please feel free to share.
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Thanks for reading.
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Great piece. Hopefully the masses will be more enlightened too.
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Thanks for reading
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they both work hand in hand bro....... thanks for sharing
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Thanks for reading.
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I think that the biggest dilemma on this is how to use clean sources, clean energy, without abusing it. And I'm saying this not only for the developing countries but even for the developed ones.
Mankind has a known history when it comes to the abuse of natural sources; the same abuse that right now is getting us in a big trouble: If oil tomorrow ends, if the global warming comes to a point of no return, what should we do?
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If we continue using oil like we are using now, it will definitely end and that's why we have to move to the clean sources and preserve the oil. We hope and pray that global warming doesn't get to a point of no return. Thanks for the comment vickaboleyn
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Great post. Nice how you implore the views of the world on a subject that concerns everyone! Keep the good work on! Consistency pays off! Amongst other things, see this as your voice!
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Thank you for reading and for the advice of adopting the energy context as my voice. Taken!!
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Developping countries have to take the path of renewable energies. Africa has a huge potentiel in Solar. Also people without electricity are better suite to adapt to solar intermittancy. The crypto+solar mix give good oportunities for people to start a business.
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I agree with you, but it cant be a total shift just yet.
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