After the unification of the planet, the Rebouças brothers’ study showed the dangers of greenhouse effect amplification for the climate and the planetary environment, after which UN resolutions increasingly restricted the use of fossil fuels. And also of nuclear energy, after its risks were evidenced when an earthquake followed by tsunami devastated the plant of Paramonga, in the Tauantinsuio. Fifty years later, there were only thirty experimental nuclear power plants and three hundred small research reactors
operating in the world, all under strict supervision by the Union of Nations Commission on Science and Culture. And coal, oil, and gas were being used only as chemical raw materials. Former mining and industrial centers disappeared in many places.
Although the Union financed the substitution of renewable energy sources, the imposition aroused much resentment in Eurasia, where many saw the threat of global warming as a forged pretext to deprive them of their technological independence and subject them to the uniform and oppressive vulgarity of solar panels and wind turbines that turned magnificent landscapes in ugly things to behold.
From ‘Once Upon a Time in a World’ by Antonio Luiz M. C. Costa
‘Solarpunk: Ecological and fantastical stories in a sustainable world. An Anthology’.
Published by World Weaver Press in 2018.
Artwork was created in Artbreeder & upscaled in Topaz Gigapixel Ai
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