Within just five years there will be 50 million environmental refugees, warns the U.N.
"Over the coming decades, we're more likely to see people abandoning their homes due to drought, or famine, or disease, or sea level rise--the so-called "slow motion disasters,"" says Jamais Cascio of WorldChanging.
And as we've seen in southern U.S. states this summer, the problem's not limited to the developing world. Nor is the emergence of alternative energies
limited to the developed world; some of the least expected places are nourishing sustainable solutions...
Read WorldChanging's outstanding coverage of leapfrog nations for more. Did you know that China is aiming for 10 percent of its electricity to come from solar sources by 2010? This week, Greenpeace and alt energy groups see rays of hope for solar power in North Africa and the Middle East:
Algeria and Morocco could one day be exporting solar energy to markets in Europe, as they will soon be connected to European energy networks…ever-rising fuel costs, problems of availability, combined with the threat of climate change meant that solar power, which is clean and cost-effective, is becoming the most economical option for both industrialised and developing nations.
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