Guidelines for the future planetary ecosystem: humanism or efficiency

Humanity has entered the era of post-industrial development, having inherited from the previousstage an aggravating contradiction between nature and the economic model established in developed countries.The emerging megatrends of global development mostly bear the imprint of this contradiction. Energy is thesphere where issues of politics and economics, ecology and security, technological innovations and quality oflife are intertwined in a single ball. The future of the planetary ecosystem can be built based on the technological development of energy, subordinated to humanitarian criteria.