Attorney Paul M. Sternberg, Houston

World Needs Renewable Energy to Fight Climate Change?

Paul Sternberg Attorney Renewable Energy  By Ned Hall

Climate change is perhaps the biggest environmental challenge in history of mankind, and world leaders still hesitate whether to make significant emission cuts like many scientists expect them to do. Almost all politicians agree that each country needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions but once it comes down to actually making legally binding agreement politicians usually turn other face saying how at the present time, industry is too weak for such radical measures.

We all know what we need to do to halt climate change. The answer to this question is very simple, decrease CO2 emissions. CO2 emissions are mostly the result of fossil fuels burning. So what we need to do is decrease the use of fossil fuels to satisfy our hunger for energy. The easiest solution for doing so is to develop renewable energy sector such as wind, solar and geothermal power that emit very little or no emissions. Solution sounds fairly easy, but sadly reality is much more complex.

Renewable energy sector despite having so many benefits over fossil fuels still hasn’t developed sufficiently to take over from fossil fuels. Many energy experts are even convinced that with current global development of renewables oil, coal, and natural gas will very likely remain dominant energy sources by the end of this century, and perhaps even longer.

Renewables are still not getting enough funds for their development, and fossil fuels lobbyists are also doing anything that is in their power to halt their development because they do not want to lose their dominant position in industry. Renewables are highly promising but it will sadly take a real miracle to turn this promise into reality.

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