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Future energy development, providing for the world's future energy needs, currently faces great challenges. These include an increasing World Population , demands for higher Standards Of Living , a need for less Pollution , a need to avert Global Warming , and a possible end to Fossil Fuel s (see Hubbert Peak Theory ). Without energy, the world's entire industrialized infrastructure would collapse; Agriculture , Transport ation, Waste Collection , Information Technology , communications and much of the prerequisites that a developed nation takes for granted. A shortage of the energy needed to sustain this infrastructure could lead to a Malthusian Catastrophe .


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