When you consider that vast amounts of energy in the form of coal, oil and gas, that took hundreds of millions of years to store in the sediments, has been burned off over an extremely short period of time (+/- 150 years), I can appreciate that this would probably have a significant impact on our environment.
As only 10% of world population is primarily responsible for most of the hydrocarbon energy use above, it falls on them to find the solution. However, I fail to see how a technological solution will avoid chaos in the world economy.
Also, as the increase in hydrocarbon energy is linked to the increase in world population, I don't see how we should work feverishly to change the former while ignoring the latter.
So many questions, and so few answers.
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