Practicing "Sustainability"

Our concerns about the environment are countered by our need for economic development which entails the use of energy to increase production to generate income to sustain society.  Our cleanest sources of energy are solar energy from the sun and wind to propel windmills and lastly the power of flowing water to turn water wheels also, in all cases generate electricity. And here in lies the predicament. How do those who generate wealth from our usual source of energy generation prevent people from using sun, wind and water to create their own electricity? Simply, by the price of obtaining the technology.  In oil and gas industry, prices are falling to maintain a competitive advantage to secure their sources of income, not only for personal profit but to sustain production and utilities to citizens in their charge.  Technological research should be geared towards counteracting the effects of carbon footprints by creating systems to utilise the carbons we produce. Carbon is a basic element in all facets of evolution. We are a carbon based evolution in all life forums and the foods we require for survival. Without carbon we cannot survive. Where are the creative minds we need to recycle carbons we produce?  Global warming and its opposite, ice age are all part of the history of evolution. Man, even before advent of technology adapted to suite. Over 300,000 years of ice sits on our polar caps. The caps are melting. Why aren't we harvesting our ice for future use? An Arab state, which I can’t recall, towed icebergs into the Middle -East to make use of fresh water. Global warming will adversely affect temperate regions more so, than tropical regions. But the crux of this issue lies in the fact that developed countries have trampled the environment with carbon footprints now, being aware of their abuse, want to blame developing countries for adapting their methods for economic development and success. Like an European warned, they will be flooding the tropics to survive and we in the tropics would once again be subjected to their exploitive missions. Be warned.