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Fashion and design Fashion is one area of trend forecasting. The industry typically works 18 months ahead of the current selling season.[citation needed] Large retailers look at the obvious impact of everything from the weather forecast to runway fashion for consumer tastes. Consumer behavior and statistics are also important for a long-range forecast. Artists and conceptual designers, by contrast, may feel that consumer trends are a barrier to creativity. Many of these ‘startists’ start micro trends but do not follow trends themselves.[citation needed] Science and technology for sustainability Renewable energy technologies (such as Artificial photosynthesis) have been evaluated for their capacity to power human civilization whilst permitting it to be steward over the planet for millions of years (a public policy concept termed the Sustainocene).[36] Energy and Alternative Sources While the price of oil probably will go down and up, the basic price trajectory is sharply up. Market forces will play an important role, but there are not enough new sources of oil in the Earth to make up for escalating demands from China, India, and the Middle East, and to replace declining fields. And while many alternative sources of energy exist in principle, none exists in fact in quality or quantity sufficient to make up for the shortfall of oil soon enough. A growing gap looms between the effective end of the Age of Oil and the possible emergence of new energy sources.[37] |
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