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: The Climate Parables: Reporting from the Future

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The Future of Energy

In 2002, you looked ahead 50 years to estimate how many more tens of trillions of lots of new clean energy the world would have to be producing by the 2050s. And fusion and space solar are still just over that horizon. Meanwhile worldwide emissions just keep on going up. So today as you look to 2050 and beyond, what gives you hope that humanity is actually going to rise to the challenge of transforming how we generate store and use energy?

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