Day 140
One might say that OPEC has done more for the environment in the last few years than has Al Gore, albeit only incidentally so.
I am of the mind that the shift to renewable energies and low-emission vehicles will happen no sooner or later than the energy merket will demand. Environmentalism will make only a peripheral difference, at best, because the bottom line is always money. Eventually, fossil fuels will become less financially viable on the whole than renewables, such that cars will go electric, or hydrogen, and energy production will make its move toward renewables and probably more nuclear power.
Take solace, for this may happen sooner rather than later. Oil is hitting new highs weekly, and people may begin to clamour for the more expensive hybrid and (possibly electric) cars en masse even if the vehicles themselves are more expensive. Oil will at some point simply run out; this point in time will become more accurately predictable the more is used, since nearly all the world's significant oil deposits have already been found and at least partially exploited. And when it does come very clear the that black stuff will be gone, the world (or much of it) will go green simply out of practical necessity.
But the problem is, what if the environmental damage we're committing every day will be irreparable by the time the necessary wsitch is made? It is something of a race, I suppose. Many say it will be "too late" in 50 years, or even in 10 years. We shall see.
I am of the mind that the shift to renewable energies and low-emission vehicles will happen no sooner or later than the energy merket will demand. Environmentalism will make only a peripheral difference, at best, because the bottom line is always money. Eventually, fossil fuels will become less financially viable on the whole than renewables, such that cars will go electric, or hydrogen, and energy production will make its move toward renewables and probably more nuclear power.
Take solace, for this may happen sooner rather than later. Oil is hitting new highs weekly, and people may begin to clamour for the more expensive hybrid and (possibly electric) cars en masse even if the vehicles themselves are more expensive. Oil will at some point simply run out; this point in time will become more accurately predictable the more is used, since nearly all the world's significant oil deposits have already been found and at least partially exploited. And when it does come very clear the that black stuff will be gone, the world (or much of it) will go green simply out of practical necessity.
But the problem is, what if the environmental damage we're committing every day will be irreparable by the time the necessary wsitch is made? It is something of a race, I suppose. Many say it will be "too late" in 50 years, or even in 10 years. We shall see.
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