The result is a worrisome situation politically because it can lead to wars over resources. It could also lead to starvation because the production of food is dependent on energy. Energy is used to provide everything from fertilizer to diesel fuel to food storage to transportation. Energy has allowed us to move from my father's time of 50% of the U.S. population scratching food out of the surface of the earth to only 3% of the population producing food, much of which we export.
Energy plays in the growth of humanity.
We have grown to 6.5 billion people from 1.5 billion people over the last century because we could take the work off the backs of men and animals and put it onto machines. We created electronics, computers, medicine and so forth to improve our lifestyle. We have lived truly in the most abundant time for humanity, but we have used up half of the oil. You cannot grow energy production at the level that Asia and India would like in order to have the kind of lifestyle we have here in the West.
The result is a worrisome situation politically because it can lead to wars over resources. It could also lead to starvation because the production of food is dependent on energy. Energy is used to provide everything from fertilizer to diesel fuel to food storage to transportation. Energy has allowed us to move from my father's time of 50% of the U.S. population scratching food out of the surface of the earth to only 3% of the population producing food, much of which we export.
The result is a worrisome situation politically because it can lead to wars over resources. It could also lead to starvation because the production of food is dependent on energy. Energy is used to provide everything from fertilizer to diesel fuel to food storage to transportation. Energy has allowed us to move from my father's time of 50% of the U.S. population scratching food out of the surface of the earth to only 3% of the population producing food, much of which we export.
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