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Figure 1: Global energy consumption in 1996, totalling 135 terawatt hours.
Figure 2: Three ways to curb carbon: nuclear fusion (top left), a carbon-free technology that is still not commercially viable; tree plantations.

JOINT EUROPEAN TORUS KLEIN/HUBERT/STILL PICTURES US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

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Victor, D. Strategies for cutting carbon. Nature 395, 837–838 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/27532

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