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AMERICA’S ENERGY PAST AND PRESENT
by the year 2050. This will put a heavy burden on our planet’s resources as
the demands grow exponentially for a dwindling supply of fossil fuels and
other reserves. The greatest concentration of this population boom will be
in China and India, which might hold more than 3 billion people when the
twenty-first century hits the midway mark. These two nations are also rap-
idly urbanizing their societies. Sustaining the highly industrial infrastruc-
ture they are quickly building will require the consumption of even greater
quantities of depleting fossil fuels. Altho ...