How Efficiency, Conservation Can Cut Energy Demand by 2020

By Lest Brown

Plan B measures call for improvements in buildings, appliances and transportation.


Open Access Article Originally Published: January 06, 2009

Projections from the International Energy Agency show global energy demand growing by close to 30 percent by 2020, setting the stage for massive growth in the carbon dioxide emissions that are warming our planet. But dramatically ramping up energy efficiency would allow the world to not only avoid growth in energy demand but actually reduce global demand to below 2006 levels by 2020.

We can reduce the amount of energy we use by preventing the waste of heat and electricity in buildings and industrial processes and by switching to efficient lighting and appliances. We can also save an enormous amount of energy by restructuring the transportation sector. Many of the needed energy efficiency measures can be enacted relatively quickly and pay for themselves.

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This is Junior's real failure and legacy. Failure to get the US out of the energy dependence on ME oil, and plunging the US into military fiascoes and financial ruin instead at the behest of the energy and war industries. Cheney and Bush, the black gondoliers in flight suits.