Various authors -- Oil and gas and its consequences
=====================================================

Why we care: (1) Because they (fossil fuels) will destroy us.  (2)
Because it (energy) has made us prosperous; it has increased our
wealth; improved our standard of living; given us better health.
(3) Because no ordinary, conventional methods or approaches will
stop that destruction; only innovative approaches can give us any
hope at all.

A major part of the problem is that we're all cooperating in our own
destruction.  We're all in on it.  Yes, the oil and gas industry is
huge, but the rest of us do our parts, too.  They are only the
enablers.  None of us are willing to give up the benefits of the
fuel we burn and consume and turn into plastic and ...

And, we're not under control nor are we in control.  Our political
system, in the U.S. does not respond to only does worried about
climate change, and the political system and commercial firms in
countries like China and India, where they are burning and will
increasingly be burning massive amounts of coal) does not respond to
our environmentalists at all.

References:

- "Funny money", by Mark Singer

- "The boom: how fracking ignited the American enrgy revolution and
  changed the world", by Russell Gold

- "The frackers", by Gregory Zuckerman

- "The green and the black", by Gary Sernovitz

08/16/2019

.. vim:ft=rst:fo+=a: