Question 4```Read this passage carefully and answer the question that follow.
```Read this passage carefully and answer the question that follow.
If present trends continue, the world would face a major crisis by the end of this century, insufficient, cheap, convenient energy. For without such energy, industrial production will fall, agricultural output will drop, transport will be restricted and standard of living in developed countries will plummet. At present, almost all our energy comes from fossil fuels. the earth's reserves of fossil fuels have been formed from organic matter subjected to enormous heat and pressure for millions of years. But such reserve are finite. Because power demand is increasing very rapidly, fossil fuels will be exhausted within a relatively short time. we can estimate the amount of recoverable fuel under the surface of the earth we know the rate at which is is being extracted. Fairly simple calculations can therefore determine its remaining life. If present trends continue, gas and oil reserves will be exhausted by the middle of the 21st century-about 70 years from now. Similar estimates for coal and wood reserves suggest a projected supply of 250 - 300 years. Of course long before fossils fuels are exhausted: demand will greatly exceed supply For too many years, the world has consumed fossil fuels with little thought of the future, in fact, world energy consumption increased almost 600% between 1900 and 1965 and it is projected to increase by another 450% between 1965 and the year 2010, crude oil has been pumped out of the ground for about 10 years, but over half of it has been consumed in the past 18 years. Coal hs been mined for over 800 years, but over half of it has been extracted in the past 37 years in sum, most of the world's consumption of energy from fossil fuels throughout history, has taken place within living memory```
The writer seems to suggest that developed nations should
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