Even according to very reputable sources, such as the EIA, their latest reports indicate fossil fuels will comprise >70% of energy use by 2040. This was a downward adjustment from just 2 years ago that was over 80%.
Regardless, oil and gas as an energy source will continue to grow... as a portion of overall human energy consumption, and, obviously, be a huge part of energy use into the future. I personally believe there will be a future with both increasing efficiency on energy use and achieving emission and global climate change targets. There is a balance that will be struck by humanity in my mind, and I think ultimately the technology and understanding will get to a point where the Earth can be bio-engineered to achieve some kind of equilibrium (or at least we think we will think we can, but there are, of course, so many other variables at play).
I also think, related to my point above, that climate change is also a function of natural processes such as volcanoes, solar activity, regular natural changes in weather patterns like El Nino events, etc. These are all very frequently disregarded in favour of the more popular blame humans for everything campaigns by people largely trying to pat themselves on the back for being good people and claiming they know more than they actually do.
Like everything in life, as it goes with this debate, the answer is probably somewhere in the middle of what the two sides muse over.
Lastly, to edit here quick, I always like how George Carlin described all of this. To paraphrase he said, at the end of the day the Earth will be just fine. Oil and gas in fact comes from the Earth. Earth is great... it will always be great. It's the people that are ####ed. And we probably will be anyway from an asteroid one day, just like the dinosaurs.
Last edited by Mr.Coffee; 06-01-2016 at 09:42 PM.
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