After more than half a century of military dictatorship, a woman who never gave up has finally reached the top. The first democratic vote in Burma, since decades, started on 8 November 2015 and, as expected, NLD (the National League for Democracy), the opposition party, won largely, headed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.

That’s one of the burning questions our world leaders have been struggling with at Paris COP21 during the first weeks of December 2015. My question is: can we wait for the politicians to make up their minds and act? Solutions exist and are being implemented already. In this article we’ll examine some of the alternatives to fossil fuels for our future survival.