How Can We Justify Spending So Much Money on Alternatives

question 55

Essay

How can we justify spending so much money on alternatives to fossil fuels if we don't even have a good measure of how much is still beneath the earth's surface? With the two paths provided,how would you divide our financial resources between 1)figuring out how to quantify,extract,and better use fossil fuels and 2)development and implementation of alternative energy sources?

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