It's as if "the system" knows that without fracking, oil sands, and enhanced oil recovery technologies, with conventional crude and gas having peaked a decade ago, we would be facing a fairly significant energy shortage today, and an even worse one a decade hence.
Everyone wants to eat the bacon but nobody wants to butcher the hog. Energy supply is THE NUMBER ONE THING that enables modern civilization to repel entropy as well as it does. We, as a species, will do whatever it takes to ensure the energy supply remains. We will accept climate change and poisoned water because the alternative, short of a miracle in solar capture, is the death of several billion people.
It's as if "the system" knows that without fracking, oil sands, and enhanced oil recovery technologies, with conventional crude and gas having peaked a decade ago, we would be facing a fairly significant energy shortage today, and an even worse one a decade hence.
Everyone wants to eat the bacon but nobody wants to butcher the hog. Energy supply is THE NUMBER ONE THING that enables modern civilization to repel entropy as well as it does. We, as a species, will do whatever it takes to ensure the energy supply remains. We will accept climate change and poisoned water because the alternative, short of a miracle in solar capture, is the death of several billion people.
The Spice must flow.