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The will for wind
Wind power can meet 12 percent of global electricity
within two decades
 Bali,
Indonesia, 28 May 2002: Greenpeace and the wind energy industry
today released a global blueprint to provide 12 percent of the world’s
future electricity by 2020.
This is to prove to governments meeting at the
final pre- summit meeting in Bali that the only thing that stands
in the way of a renewable energy revolution is the lack of political
will.
“Governments coming to the table to
sort out the energy needs for the future through the Earth Summit
will fail in their mandate if they ignore the industrial potential
of wind power. Twelve percent is the equivalent total amount of
electricity used today in Europe, or twice that of China,”
said Corin Millais of Greenpeace.
“Wind power works, it’s time for
politicians to do the same. The only barrier is political blindness,
and a woeful ignorance of what wind power can deliver for the world.
If governments ceased their perverse subsidies to fossil fuels and
nuclear power - $250-300 billion world-wide a year - we will have
clean affordable energy for the world.”
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