The documentary Pandora’s Promise explores the idea that in the next couple decades, we will need to double or triple the amount of energy production. Director Robert Stone highlights how this is substantial in order for billions of people to carry themselves out of poverty and pursue living modern lives. One of the producers says “assuming that the world continues to develop and that China, India and Brazil become rich countries over the next half century or century, how much energy is the world going to use? When you start running those numbers, it is a sobering exercise.” He states that if we continue using energy the way we use it now, that we will double the amount of energy we use by 2050 and that by the end of the century, we will triple or quadruplet it.

The abundant expenditures of building nuclear power plants is a essential restricting determinant for the energy source. In spite of gathering excessively better subsidies than renewable energy from the introduction of its advancement, nuclear energy remains to not be competitive with fossil fuels in the United States and new wind energy is predicted to be cheaper than the new nuclear generation. The film claims that “to be anti-nuclear is basically to be in favor of burning fossil fuels”.

Only if the source of new energy is clean and non-CO2 emitting, the chance taken of bringing about a destructive global climate calamity is all but positive. The importance of this crisis, and the drawbacks of frequently projected solutions, have left the prevailing environmental development dangling between apocalyptic contemplation and sheer disorder. The documentary shows how crucial electricity is to have and how without it, the lifespan is much shorter. Clinics, schools, refrigerators, etc all rely on electricity and how the tiniest amount of watts can make just the difference. If we want to stabilize emissions at some reasonable level, almost all of that energy has to be clean energy. We have to not only develop a clean energy infrastructure to replace the fossil fuel infrastructure we have, but we have to create yet another one or two between now and 2050 and 2100 in order to reduce our emissions to stabilize the climate.