Energy for the future
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Fossil fuels provide most of the world’s energy. We depend upon them, and many developing countries want to use more. They took millions of years to form. But humankind will have taken just a few hundred years to use them up.
This means that fossil fuels are non-renewable energy sources. Oil and gas could be in short supply within your lifetime. Fossil fuels also cause carbon emissions and so contribute to climate change. But we can’t simply stop using them. So we need to use what remains more...
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