ABSTRACT
Although achieving the short-term goal of avoiding, in part, a worsening in environmental conditions, renewable energy sources still face a great deal of skepticism. Critics have argued that, with rapid worldwide population growth, real estate will not be as easily available in the future, which might threaten the sustainability of solar power plants-so-called solar farms (NSS 2013). Scholars have also expressed skepticism about wind energy, arguing that some consider onshore wind farms unpopular, and citing bird mortality as an undesirable side eect of this source of sustainable energy (Bryce 2009). Some economists have also argued that biofuels have been inducing agriculturists to produce fuel instead of food in what is, in eect, a natural cannibalization of agricultural goods destined for consumption, mankind’s major source of sustenance. ese economists have said that, if this trend continues, the current number
of undernourished people, which amounted to an estimated 925 million people in 2010, will continue to increase (World Hunger Organization [WHO] 2010).
