How Can Humanity Become a Kardashev Type 1 Civilization?

Imagine a world where humanity masters every planetary resource available to it-our first step on the famous Kardeshev scale of technological advancement. How distant is that step? Will we even become a true Type-1 civilization, and how can we get there?

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