[energy, environment] what level of energy use would be sustainable

What’s new in The New Yorker magazine and on newyorker.com. The Island in the Wind by Elizabeth Kolbert Around the same time that Samsø was designated Denmark’s renewable-energy island, a group of Swiss scientists who were working on similar issues performed a thought experiment. The scientists asked themselves what level of energy use would be sustainable, not just for an island or a small European nation but for the entire world… READ THIS STORY SLIDE SHOW: PHOTOGRAPHS OF SAMSØ


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