How to Prepare Our Children For the Oil-Free Future

On September 29, 2009 in Uncategorized

Sometimes when I imagine the future, I become very worried. Fuel reserves are dropping each day (even though occasionally a new source is found) and we are bound to run out of fuel at some point in the not too distant future. Since so much of our economy depends on this, who knows what may happen?

Moreover, the fact that many people are unaware of this, and aren’t familiar with even elementary facts about solar energy, scares me. After all, this is our future. Once there is no fuel left, we will need to use what we currently call green (or alternative) energy sources. When this occurs, we will all have wind power generators. “build your own wind turbine” is a sentence I imagine we will hear often in this future. Or “build your own solar panel”.

But, until we reach this point, we must educate our children in order for them to be prepared. First, we must warn them of what is soon to come, that the present they know won’t last forever, and that the “easily available” energy source known as fuel will not always be around. Second, we must describe the importance - and the usefulness - of alternative energy sources such as wind energy, solar energy, hydroelectric energy and so on. Third, we should start creating educational courses for the creation of alternative energy sources (for example, building solar panels or wind turbines). Only by doing this our children will be ready for the future that is coming - and not too far from now.

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