Even though technology has greatly advanced in the last decade, most governments of countries around the world still use fossil fuel-based methods of energy production. This can be detrimental to mankind since, according to (online) http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01335/welcome.htm, "The use of these fuels has two major problems; it depletes the natural supply and eventually will run out; and the burning of the fuel (i.e. coal) creates vast pollution in the form of greenhouse gases (GHG's such as carbon monoxide and dioxide, and sulphur dioxide). It is these gases which lead to global warming and slowly destroy the planet." Governments will have to opt for renewable energy/ alternative sources of energy to overcome this problem. Only through the use of renewable energy/ alternative sources of energy (which are virtually non-polluting) can this destruction be slowed-down to save this planet. Renewable energy is an alternative to fossil fuels and was commonly called alternative energy in the 1970s and 1980s. According to (online)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_development, "Renewable energy/ alternative sources of energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, Algae-to-fuel and geothermal heat, which are renewable (naturally replenished)." Usage of these alternative sources of energy/ renewable energy should be promoted by Governments due to the environmental benefits, limited resources of current energy sources, in the name of development, Governments' responsibility to the people, and Government's aim to build a political gain over its opposition parties.Governments of countries from around the world would be doing a great deed for the future of this world by promoting the usage of these alternative sources of energy/ renewable energy since, according to (online) http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01335/welcome.htm, "it will reduce the acceleration of global warming and could help the future generation on the…