What happens after we run out of oil? Can our civilization survive without a ready supply of fossil fuels? What are our alternatives, and will we be ready? Energy is a short story that imagines a future where we remained unprepared to change our consumption and our use of energy sources as world population grew, and asks questions about what we might be able to do to avoid such a future. The possibilities it considers are frighteningly realistic, and the questions it asks are ones that affect everything we do.
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