"We continue to imagine that we need to get greater and greater, however we don't contemplate the ramifications of environmental change from now on," said Aisha Al-Sarihi, an Oman-based scientist at the Center East Organization of the Public College of Singapore. . "Assuming we proceed to endlessly grow, it implies we really want more energy, more water and greater power, particularly for cooling. In any case, there are cutoff points, and we see those cutoff points today."