In praise of petroleum?
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چکیده
Among other difficulties (1), the World Summit on Sustainable Development -Rio+10 struggled with defining “sustainability.” Typical of efforts to make concrete this slippery concept was a preparatory paper addressing one of the most pressing issues in human development, how to bring modern energy services to the one-third of humanity whose development and survival requirements suffer from lack of them (2). These twobillion people have little access to electricity and depend for cooking and heating on local biomass in the form of wood, crop residues, and dung.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Science
دوره 298 5600 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002