WCRE paper, June, 2004

Future urban development with Renewable Energy: towards the global renewable energy habitat

The direction of modern urbanisation has reached a technological dead-end; the situation is extremely precarious, locally and globally. Global urbanisation has been fuelled by its dependency on cheap fossil fuel powered electrification and gasoline-powered transport systems. Now, as both fuel supplies approach their commercially attainable end, and it becomes apparent that almost three-quarters of man-made carbon emissions are derived from cities' fossil fuel consumption, all stops must be pulled out to go far beyond 'making cities
sustainable'. The challenge is no less than to rescue civilisation as we know it, and to avert the worst calamities.

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