The principal challenge of this century, in my view, will be adapting to a life without abundant, cheap fossil fuels. It has been the lifeblood of our society, and turns out to have some really fantastic qualities. The jury is still out as to whether we will develop suitable, and affordable replacements.
But additional challenges loom in parallel. Water is very likely to be one of them, which is especially pertinent in my region.
Worth a read - as well as the follow-up article (Part II). We had a discussion at dinner last night on the energy water nexus as it relates to fracking. We are delaying an inevitable move away from exploiting finite resources by putting our water resources at risk, which are likely the next to come under pressure, in order to extract the last of our fossil fuel resources.
These are impressive articles. Keep up the noble be successful.