A Conversation about the Future of Humanity in 100 Years
Extracting alone the crude oil, coal, lithium, and cobalt from the 4.5-billion-year-old Earth will eventually empty any reserves.
Thanks to all the products human ingenuity has been able to develop from crude oil over the last 200 years, after its discovery, the world has populated from 1 to 8 billion.
Like all the products needed by ships and planes, all the electricity generation options available, such as wind turbines, solar panels, nuclear, hydro, coal, and natural gas, are all dependent on the products and components manufactured from crude oil to be able to generate electricity.
As the world’s population depletes the earth’s crude oil reserves over the next 50 years or so, our grandchildren, or their children, will be unable to enjoy the more than 6,000 products of our materialistic society, being enjoyed by the current residents on this planet.
While wind turbines and solar panels can only generate occasional electricity, crude oil is the basis of most products in our materialistic society. When we talk about “energy”, we need to be more specific – are we talking about electricity or products?
So, what’s the future of our materialistic humanity 100 years from now, after humans have extracted crude oil, coal, lithium, and cobalt from the 4.5-billion-year-old Earth?
Nothing lasts forever. Extracting alone will eventually empty any reserves!
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OP/ED is written by Ronald Stein.
Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for the Heartland Institute and CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book “Clean Energy Exploitations.”
Stein started his career as a project manager at Fluor in July 1964. Later he worked as a project manager in Jaws Attraction, Florida, at Universal Studios in 1987.
He established PTS Staffing in April 1995. Since 2010, he has written different Op-eds about the energy sector and conservation. Stein started Energy Literacy, an initiative for educating the public about energy topics. He is a policy advisor on energy literacy at Heartland Institute and The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT).
Stein has been named as the private business spokesperson for the energy industry. He has started an initiative for Energy Literacy, where he shares books, podcasts, and articles to educate people about the energy sector.
Stein is an energy agnostic, and supplies in-depth discussions and explanations about energy-related subjects for the public to become energy literate about the many sides of renewable electricity, and the products manufactured from fossil fuels, that support lifestyles and economies around the world.
Renewables and fossil fuels are different. Fossil fuels are primarily used to manufacture products and fuels for humanity, while renewables only generate electricity but manufacture nothing for humanity.
In 2020, PTS was renamed as PTS Advance, and Stein became its Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure. Stein is also a columnist and co-author of three books.
His work has been featured in the Eurasia Review, the Heartland Institute, the Cornwall Alliance, and New Geography.
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