...and yet we are still using, pretty much, the same natural resources that were being used at the time of the industrial revolution,with all there inherent damaging by products.
All these 'promises' of new technologies are nothing new.60 years ago it was going to be nuclear power that was going to uniformaly change our lives and now we are relying on windmills (well turbines to posh them up) as the way ahead.In the meantime China,India and the US are spewing forth with ever increasing amounts of carbon waste.
Despite what you say, no one has suggested putting an end to finding alternatives,but what governs new sources of energy, is time scale and the fact that our population is growing out of control and at the rate we are going, we are not going to be ABLE to sit around waiting for a miracle renewable source of energy, that is both safe and commercial.Which is why politians are pushing solar,wind and wave alternatives.
'Talking up' finding these miracle alternatives from outer space is, as we stand, is no more than the basis for Steven Spielbergs' next film and not an immediate reality,not by a long chalk!! In the mean time we need to be REALISTIC about taking stock of our current situation,which was my initial post.Mankind is very good at extrapilating what wonders we will be doing in the future,it's a great shame that it doesn't seem too keen to examine the mess we have created in the present!!!
We like to think that these amazing new sources of new energy are going to JUST HAPPEN,however,if you look at,for example, electric cars they were using batteries to run cars in the first years of the 20th century and yet this technolgy still only enables us to move around with barely a hundred mile range!!!!...HARDLY PROGRESS!!!??