This essential provides an overview of the changes in our climate their causes and their
consequences. Today humanity's energy needs are largely met in ways that are harmful to the
climate. The alternative to this solar energy would satisfy our needs thousands of times
over. But this option is far too little used for mainly economic reasons. This essential then
discusses the energy converters that can be used to make solar energy available. Some other
modern energy sources such as nuclear power are either inadequate still utopian or
otherwise environmentally harmful. An outlook shows that our energy problem could easily be
solved with economic reason by global use of solar energy. The climate could thus still be
stabilized in time. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Unser Klima
und das Energieproblem by Klaus Stierstadt published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH
part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial
intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was
done primarily in terms of content so that the book will read stylistically differently from a
conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of
tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.
