Environmental sustainability has long been a problem that sociologists have been trying to crack. Resolving this comes down to three main issues strongly connected to each other:
- fossil fuel depletion,
- climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions, and
- the increasing costs of energy and water.
With our future teetering on this balance, the race is on to come to an answer that will halt damage to our planet and drive the plan to recovery.
Since the industrial revolution, the world’s nations have been founded on access to fossil fuel energy. The fact remains that not only is the burning of fossil fuels doing continuous harm to our environment, fossil fuels are also a finite resource. Yet demand for them continues to increase: nations such as China and India, having become more industrialized, have sent the global demand and price of fossil fuels rocketing, as well global emissions of carbon dioxide.
This increases the burden on economies all over the world, and at the end of that never-ending chain of costs is the average homeowner, whose utility bills continue to soar. In fact, out of what we usually pay for our electricity, only a mere 30% accounts for the actual costs of the energy we consume. This is a perfect example of where the three famed pillars of sustainability come in: environmental, economic and social, and how one inevitably influences the other—if any of these pillars is weak, the system in its whole is not sustainable.
The 3 Pillars of Sustainability
When all three of these pillars are stable and strong, people live in a system where a high quality of life is the norm. They have a clean healthy environment, a satisfactory level of economic well-being, and a robust level of social fulfillment.
So much of renewable energy produced in the world comes from small-scale producers. In order for these small-scale producers to truly thrive, however, peer-to-peer networks need to be set in place so that consumers are free to access and buy energy from clean, natural sources. Prosume Energy aims to make this very scenario possible. Through applications made possible by blockchain technology, prosumers can now have guarantees of origin, certification of renewable energy and emission allowances, smart metering and billing, making that perfect balance of sustainability no longer that distant of a reality.
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