The UN Climate Summit—COP 26, which was postponed for one year to November 2021 because the pandemic of COVID-19, they resolved that "With the total energy supply remaining unchanged, the fossil raw materials must be phase-down year by year, while increasing the proportion of renewable energy." The world has set off a tide of renewable energy. The total energy supply is called "TES" for short, and it has become a megatrend in global scientific research from 2022.
In 2009, Peter Li-Chang Kuo who was invited to the APEC CEO Summit in Singapore to contribute the way of "Rebuilding the Global Economy". The Proposal "IIA-TES" was accepted generally. IIA refers to investing in America, while "TES" will use "Tech" to develop a clean economy of “Ecology/ EP/ Energy”, and the most important thing is to promote "Socially Responsible Investment". As a result, the battle between carbohydrate and hydrocarbon was triggered.
Carbohydrate is composed of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen, which can be biodegraded, and the plants that grow on the ground are all carbohydrates. Hydrocarbons are composed of carbon and hydrogen, and are usually buried in the ground as fossil raw materials. Fossils have caused the pollution. The subject of "Rebuilding the Global Economy" is on "Economy". Kuo referred to the industrial revolution caused by Watt's commercialization of steam engines in 1776 and the excessive use of coal as "Hydrocarbon Economy" —abbreviated to "HE". For more than two centuries, HE has caused air pollution, water is full of poisons, and has also led to many inexplicable wars and diseases. The way to improve is to return to the "Carbohydrate Economy" —or "CE" for short.
In fact, CE is not a new thing, but a natural material used by our ancestors for thousands of years – such as the application of "Plants". Just as there was no "fossil" material before, the Queen of Sheba sailed to visit King Solomon in a sailboat, and the material of the ship's "canvas and ropes" came from plants, not nylon. The words "Carbohydrate" and "Hydrocarbon" could be heard and argued one after another during the meeting. Kuo looked like to have sparked the "Dispute of Carbohydrate and Hydrocarbon", and the "fifty- fifty" were evenly divided. The result of this Dispute was that "hydrocarbon" won. Because the United States decided: "Develop the shale oil."
Originally, the cost of extraction was high, but the crude oil price reached US$100 per barrel that became worth to drill. In 2014, America made a major breakthrough in shale oil production technology, and the production of shale oil increased significantly. In 2015, the United States became a net oil exporter, shed its dependence on OPEC producers. However, the development of shale oil has reduced mankind's pursuit of renewable energy, slowed down the development of green energy technologies, and hindered the progress of the implementation of the "TES Initiative".
In the "IIA-TES", Kuo specially drew a "Seven Major Center" between Taiwan and America to illustrate "how to promote CE" and implement investment in America to promote the economic stimulus. Centered on Kansas City, Missouri, known as the "Heart of the United States", it radiates to the surrounding states, looking for relatively barren areas to grow castor and hemp plants. It is roughly estimated that the land for cultivating plants needs about 22,000 square kilometers to be able to meet the required amount. The point is that plants grow from the earth, can perform photosynthesis, absorb carbon dioxide, conserve water to protect the soil, improve the landscape, and then develop many new environmental protection technologies and equipments, creating a large number of "local job opportunities", it is estimated that It can generate USD10 trillion in business opportunities, benefiting about 100 million people.
The United Nations discovered the problem of global warming, and signed the Kyoto Protocol at the “Third Conference of the Parties” (COP3) held in Japan in 1997; after 18 years, it was found that it seems to be empty talk, so the Paris Agreement was signed at the 2015 French Climate Summit (COP 21) for replacing the Kyoto Protocol, with the hope of jointly curbing the trend of global warming and strengthening the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) through collective action. In 2017, the "Green Financial Network System" (NGFS) was established, and it was decided to improve the trend of climate deterioration through financial investment. Peter Lichang Kuo's initiative of "CE" (Carbohydrate Economy or known as Clean Economy) and "Socially Responsible Investment" (SRI) advocated at major international conferences have begun to attract attention.
Nowadays, many countries choose those barren areas and start planting hemp plants. In fact, George Washington (1732~1799), the founding father of the United States, once said about hemp plants: "This is a cash crop and the future of America." According to the conclusion of Kuo's in-depth research, if the United States wants to be great again, it shall definitely not focus on the hydrocarbon economy, but choose the right "cash crops", develop those technological products of "bio-based" to form an emerging settlement of agricultural technology industry, and fully implement and development of the carbohydrate economy (CE).
