Don't know about the rest of the world but here are some numbers from the good ole United States of America from 2007 as compared to 2006.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/epa_sum.htmlAccording to this, RE (not including hydro) is responsible for 2.5% of the electric power produced and sold to customers. Total earnings after expenses for the sale of electricity came to $30.7 billion. 2.5% of $30.7 billion would be $767.5 million. Of course this is from the retail sales of electricity made from RE in the U.S. of A. not the retail sales of the RE harvesting equipment. Which I am sure is in the hundreds of billions of dollars world wide.
In other news;
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/business/energy-environment/29renew.html?_r=1We could go on and on with this and that from all sorts of people and places but it all "boils" down to what each one of us as an individual entity believes. Me, I believe that this "energy crisis" that I hear so much about is just a symptom of a more complex sickness. Namely, the increase of 4.5 billion more people over the last 100 years. It took several thousands of years for world wide human population on the planet Earth to reach 2 billion people.
http://www-popexpo.ined.fr/english.htmlOf course we could go about our daily lives as if none of that existed. Floating along with the flow as one with the herd. Maybe the human race will make it. Maybe it will not. Either way I believe it will be a, pity about Earth.
http://www.actionbioscience.org/newfrontiers/eldredge2.htmlWhen one makes a choice to believe in one thing as opposed to another, it is like changing the direction in which one is traveling, tending to a whole new destination other than the path that is discarded. You can believe what you want to believe.
http://www.heaven.net.nz/writings/thebookofenoch.htmJust because it wasn't canonized into the Bible, doesn't means it wasn't written, thousands of years ago. One could believe that the book of of Genesis is a sort condensed version of several books wriitten thousands of years ago. Not unlike a modern day Readers Digest.
Fact or Fiction.
http://www.criticalthinking.com/company/articles/deductive-reasoning-skills.jspIf you really want to exercise your brain try this.
http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/Schizm/SchizmDVD.shtm