The Challenges, Charted

Three charts highlight some of the biggest challenges we'll face in the years ahead.

Water

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Food

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Energy

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Comments

[Doable Finance]

The world has always seen shortages in water and food. The energy sources and usage we have today are relatively new concepts, probably 100 years old.

However, energy can mean different things to different people. I come from a third world country. Some folks up in the mountains have been living with an energy source for cooking and that is wood.

For hundreds of years if not thousands, many folks go up in the mountains and cut branches from trees (whatever is left of those trees), put them on their head and bring them home to start a fire for cooking. As you can imagine, the mountains that were lush with trees centuries ago have become barren.

For them, their energy source one day will be no more. You can make a graph of it but for folks that would matter the most can't read or write let alone having computers and Internet. They are on the mercy of.....

[roger]

For the Tuareg in the desert , camel dung compacted
in a square with a hole in the center, makes a very
efficient stove for heating or cooking, blue flame
and no smoke.