To ensure permanent, appropriate and non-harmful ways of energy supply it is also very important to re-think the way energy is used in the "developed" countries. Only this way a higher quality of living can be guarantied for everybody on a peaceful and long-term bases. Especially in dry regions it becomes more and more difficult to find wood, in rural areas women and children often have to walk for hours every day to collect enough, in the cities wood prices are rising even above the price of the food that needs to get cooked.