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Earth We Have A Problem...

In a matter of decades the world's population has grown from 1.65 billion to the 6.7 billion that it is today and, according to many, by 2050 it is expected to exceed 9 billion.

For some, the exponential growth in the world's population heralds the end of the planet, however the real problem is not just about the sheer number of us, it is far more about the demands that we will subsequently place upon the planet and on its natural resources.

According to a recent study, people in the developed world are living a three-world lifestyle with only the one to support us, in other words, our consumer driven, 'must have' lifestyles are fast outstripping the world of it's capacity to sustain us.

For thousands of years, our planet maintained an equilibrium, a status-quo a place where life-forms could live and flourish. Yet now, just some 150 years since man first discovered oil, we have managed to all but destroy this balance. Wherever we look disaster looms and the imbalance between the wealth of the developed nations and the world's poorest is growing ever wider.

What we now recognize is that the gases expelled into the atmosphere when we burn fossil fuels like, coal, gas, peat and oil work to warm the surface of our planet by trapping the heat from the sun into our atmosphere.

Trapping more heat from the sun leads to an increase in global temperatures this is what we now refer to as global warming or climate change - for climate change refers to the increasing volatility and unpredictability of the world's weather.

In reality, global temperatures are only some 4-5 degrees hotter than they were during the last ice-age, but what we now know is that the burning of fossil fuels has only worked to exacerbate the warming process.

"… the truth is, that for every nine barrels of oil we consume,

only one is being discovered…"

In order for us to secure change we must learn to respect the environment, we must stop plundering the seas, destroying our forests and above all we must ensure that we conserve and maintain our vital freshwater supplies for without water wars will be waged.

In the words of Bob Dylan, 'Times They Are A Changing'. As politicians talk of reducing our dependency upon fossil fuels to help us reduce our greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) to help combat the effects of climate change they seem unable to acknowledge let alone address the 'bigger picture' that if ignored, will undoubtedly lead to the end of civilization as we know it.

So although we recognize that the burning of fossil fuels has exacerbated the earth's natural warming process, and, has indeed helped to create what we now call climate change, we also have to acknowledge that without these fossil based fuels, like coal, oil, gas and peat the world could not have evolved to where it is today.

So yes, we do concede that man is addicted to oil, even president George W Bush admitted it in his state of the union address way back in 2006. It is also no secret that since it was first discovered in 1859, we have consumed an almighty 1.5 trillion barrels of the stuff.

However the reality is, that for every nine barrels of oil we consume we are only discovering one, in other words the fossil fuels that have helped shape the fortunes of the developed world are in rapid decline. Although, according to many experts, based on current trends - recession or not, the world will consume another 1.5 trillion barrels within the next 25 years.

What many of us fail to recognize is that 'oil' is not just a product that fuels our cars. For oil is everywhere from elastic to plastic, oil is so intrinsic to our everyday lives that without it... Everything familiar will all but disappear.
 

"Over 1 billion people are  
     starving whilst another
                 billion are overweight "