The real solution to the energy crisis is not simply more alternative energy, to erect huge forests of wind mills, install solar panels on every roof top, and introduce hydrogen cells in every basement. While the answer to our energy crisis certainly includes alternative energy, we need a “whole systems solution” to not only energy but also to economics, agriculture, science, and politics.

Drinking water in Bangladesh is often full of salt as rising sea levels force water further inland.
Expensive technology offers solutions but who will foot the bill?

Bangladesh: Catching rainwater to drink / G.M.B. Akash
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