Background part I

The use on non-renewable energy sources has always been a concern for humanity. In the hunting/gathering time period, groups of people migrated to areas with an adundance of plants for harvesting and animals for hunting once the stock immediately around them had been depleated. As technology progress, humans began to use resources that required more intensive labor to collect, such as gold and coal. In the recent centuries, mankind has perfected the art of mining and refining oil to be used in our everyday lives. The process involves pumping crude oil, oil’s raw state-found in the ground, into a series of temperature and pressure controlled chambers. To make different kinds of oil, this raw product is extracted varying times so that we can have karosene, deisel, petroleum, etc to use on a daily basis. There is nothing wrong with the mining and refining of an element found on the earth for the benefit of society (and I do believe oil has been beneficial, even essential to the development of the modern world). The problem, as I see it, is the exploitation of this resource and our failure, as citizens of the twenty first century, to recognize the finiteness of this resource. Our current abundant use of oil will deplete the world of this wonderful resource. [I have focused on oil, but the same principle applies for all non-renewable energy resources]
A graph can show the increase in consumption of energy from 1980 to 2005. Because our use of these resources two problems arise. One, the question is whether or not these sources will last at our current rate of consumption; two, our use, whether consumption decreases or increases, has put a strain on the environment and has increased the effects of global warming. America is the of oil and alone uses approximately 25% of the world’s oil which is 20.73 million bbl/day.
Its consumption of electricity and coal similarly accounts for the majority of the world’s consumption. Yet, the estimation of the remaining fossil fuels (oil, coal, and gas) on the planet depends on a detailed understanding of the Earth crust and this understanding is still less than perfect. One third of the earth’s geological composition is unkown due to limitations of modern drilling technology. Even still, long before fossil fuels run out (if they actually are running out), the effect of continuing to use them at current rates would cause havoc to the climate through global warming.

Background and Analysis

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