How the remaining 200 million or so are likely to live, after the planet has a stroke and the water wars are over:
When I was in Tibet this summer, I repeatedly stumbled across the yak-skin tents of nomadic herders living in some of the most remote (and lofty) valleys in the world. They depended on yak dung, which they burned to cook food and heat their tents, and also often on a small solar panel hanging off one side of the tent, powering a light bulb and perhaps a radio inside. Every small town had a shop selling solar panels for a price roughly equivalent to that of a single sheep. Solar power obviously makes sense in such places, where there's probably never going to be an electric line.
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1 comment:
Why are those people smiling?
Don't they know that without central air and cable and internet, they are miserable?
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