Mitspa, in fifty years, I sincerely, sincerely, hope to God that you're right, but I don't think you are, and personally, I'm not willling to take the risk.
Let's look at this logically, if the oil companies (who stand by oil to the hilt, who have funded climate change denial campaigns and who oppose climate science in many aspects) have carried out studies and then told the public that there's 50 years of oil left, and the public respond by pushing for renewable energy sources (mostly government funded or funded by new companies not dealing in oil) then won't the oil companies actually
lose out?
You see, governments asked independent surveyors to calculate how much oil was left, and the oil companies had to oblige. There was no way around it. The oil companies could not sugar coat it or cover it up.
And we have the data: 53 years of oil.
And do you know what happens to the atmosphere if we burn it all? The CO2 rises to a dangerous level in PPM, our planet is unable to release heat from its atmosphere to the degree it currently can and the Earth's ice caps pretty much melt, causing sea levels around the globe to rise to a degree sufficient to wipe out the US Eastern Seaboard, almost all of Bangladesh, a fair bit of India, pretty much all of the southeast United Kingdom including London, almost all of Denmark and the Netherlands, and any and all of the low-lying Pacific islands, among many other areas around the world.
Storms (as we have seen already) will be more frequent and severe due to stronger sea currents, higher tides, more kinetic force in our global surface level energy transfer due to the malleable nature of liquid water, higher wolrdwide temperatures, wetter winter climates, colder winters, and intensely warm summers.
Displacement would be catastrophic, and the areas where most of the world's population now reside, in South East Asia, would be decimated.
I really don't want to take the chance. I don't think it's worth it, and I don't think that considering they say there are 50 years of ol left, that we have time, even economically, to dilly-dally. We need to create jobs in energy sources that aren't about to run out. We need to think of alternatives to sustain our planet, economy, energy needs and of course stop our planet from being drastically altered by us.
Since the industrial revolution, each year more species have become extinct, more storms have happened, higher temperatures have been recorded, more pollutant gases have been counted, more CO2 has been released and the curve for the increase in negative weather patterns and CO2 parts per million has shifted up more drastically than in recorded history.
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