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Sir David Attenborough, the legendary 95-year-old wildlife filmmaker told Anderson Cooper on 60 minutes: “A crime has been committed” and urgent action is needed to save nature and ourselves. Crime relies on petroleum for allowing the world to be populated so effectively over the past few centuries and for giving Sir David the chance to reach the ripe age of 95 and roam the world more than most.
In the 1800s, most people never walked 100 to 200 miles from their place of birth. Life expectancy across Europe hovered between 20 and 30 years. Food shortages and insecurity were the main concerns in the 18th century, especially in Europe, and these were exacerbated by reduced crop yields. Disease was another leading cause of death, with rats and fleas being the common vectors of disease, especially plagues, at this time. .
Just a few hundred years ago, before oil, the world was untouched and dominated by mother nature and the wild animal kingdom. There were fewer humans competing with animals due to humanity’s limited ability to survive what Mother Nature provided. Before oil, life was tough and dirty, with many deaths related to weather and disease.
Over the past two centuries, we can blame oil for the prosperity of the 8 billion population growth which is clearly shown in the United Nations chart.
After oil, we created various modes of transportation, a medical industry, and electronic and communication systems. Oil has reduced infant mortality, extended longevity from 40+ to over 80+, and gave the public the ability to travel anywhere in the world via planes, trains, ships and vehicles, and virtually eliminated deaths from most diseases and all forms of weather, All of these apparent advancements can all be traced to the introduction of petroleum into society.
We can also blame oil for increasing homeless populations, as all tents, tarps, sleeping bags, plastic bags, grocery carts, and homeless iPhones are all made from petroleum. Today’s electricity can only charge their iPhones, but cannot make any of the products that are the basis of their sad homeless survival.
The effect of lengthening the lifespan will be debated by experts and future historians for decades to come. The world population grew dramatically after the introduction of oil and became dependent on that same oil to feed the world by transporting food and commodities around the world to feed those 8 billion people on this growing earth. limited in resources and crowded.
To understand the pristine world before the introduction of oil, we can easily observe the poorest countries in the world to see what the lifestyles look like with only mother nature and the animal kingdom.
While the pandemic has caused more than 600,000 deaths in America, the numbers are pale compared to those poorer countries which see 11 million children die each year. These infant deaths are due to preventable causes of diarrhea, malaria, neonatal infection, pneumonia, premature childbirth, or lack of oxygen at birth, as many developing countries have little or no access to products derived from it. oil enjoyed by rich and healthy countries.
The main economic reasons why refineries exist are even to manufacture the fuels for aviation, diesel and gasoline for our military and transportation industries around the world, but these petroleum by-products made from the oil are much more important to societies and economies.
The future may be difficult as the world could struggle to support 8 billion people without the thousands of products made from petroleum derivatives. Oil has provided healthy and wealthy countries with a quality of life that poorer and less healthy developing countries desire, but ridding the world of fossil fuels will take humanity back to medieval times.
Sir David Attenborough is an educated man and must surely understand that electricity alone, especially the intermittent electricity of time via wind and sun, has not and will not run the economies of the world, for electricity alone is unable to sustain the prolific growth rates of the military, airlines, cruise ships, supertankers, container transport and trucking infrastructure to meet the demands of the world’s population explosion. Getting rid of fossil fuels would negatively impact the following industries and infrastructure that supported Sir David Attenborough’s illustrious career:
Medicines and medical equipment which are all made with chemicals and petroleum byproducts. Commercial aviation, with 23,000 commercial aircraft around the world that handle 4 billion passengers per year. The more than 300 cruise liners, each of which consumes 80,000 gallons of fuel daily, which handle more than 25 million passengers a year worldwide. The 56,000 merchant ships burning more than 120 million gallons per day of high sulfur bunker fuel transporting products around the world is worth billions of dollars per day. The military presence which protects each country from each other, is increasing every year to save the world. The use of fertilizer that adapts to the growth of much of the food that feeds billions each year. To meet the needs of about 2.7 billion in China and India, mostly poor, these countries have more than half (1,363) of the world’s coal-fired power plants (2,449). Together, they are building 284 new ones. Vehicle manufacturing because all parts are based on chemicals and fossil fuel byproducts. The use of asphalt for road construction.
Sir David Attenborough and politicians at home and abroad are supporting the GND to end the oil industry that has been the source of the world’s 8 billion people. Going green without clones or generics to replace the crude oil derivatives that are the basis of all the products demanded by lifestyles and economies around the world would change the world in the days of a few hundred years ago. barely before 1900.
Hopefully we in the wealthiest and healthiest countries can coexist with the poorer and less healthy countries that enslave labor in mines and factories to provide the exotic minerals and metals needed by people. green energy technologies for building EV batteries, solar panels and wind turbines, and with the Saudis and Russians for America’s oil demands.
Humanity exists in all of the world’s extreme weather conditions, from the hot, dry Sahara Desert to the freezing northern hemispheres. The animal kingdom has adapted to climate change over billions of years, and now humanity may need to use the tools provided by petroleum products and fuels to master the continuing challenges of adjusting to climate change.
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