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people, is a typical estimate. Many of them, including many
children, depend on welfare for survival, often by private charities—
Germany’s “soup kitchens”, the “Restaurants du Coeur” in France, or
via “food stamps” in the US. There must be something wrong with
the way national budgets are allocated!
As far as the energy budgets are concerned, they are relatively
modest in comparison with the giant mastodons mentioned above.
But expenditures on energy are considerable as well. Globally, new
energy investments are counted in the hundreds of billions of US-
dollars per annum.
I have always felt that the energy stakeholders—those in