Even with all the technology available now, and the great brains that are at work to solve the impending disaster from the energy crisis the world is dealing with, there's still no ultimate solution to it. We are still miles away from solving a crisis that might change civilization as we know it.
Oil well is drying up, which has led countries going into war, killing thousands of innocent lives. The fact that we are running out of oil is nothing new but we still produce millions and millions of cars every year.
We do have an alternative though; thanks to those genius lot that have discovered renewable energy. Energy source that would always be available in abundance. Isn't it great? Doesn't it sound perfect? Too perfect to even be possible even? Kinda. They are extremely expensive. Crazy expensive. And plus they take up a lot more space to generate the same amount of energy than an oil refinery. Imagine a future with desert and farming land converted into a power plant with rows and rows of wind turbines and photovoltaic panels. Where would we grow our food then? With food crisis already ripping some countries apart now, surely we do not want that problem to add on our already long urgent list?
What about biogas? That's a good effort. But even if we collect every single drop of shit from every single cow on this earth, we won't be able to generate enough energy to power the world. But it will be a good help though. Just not enough to substitute oil.
Wait, what about nuclear power? Their reactor doesn't take up much space, they generate a lot more energy, in a factor of thousands, compared to oil and gas, and they don't cost that much either. Hmm. Let's see. First it's nuclear. The name will always carry a stigma with it wherever it goes. Secondly, there's the issue of disposing the waste. Thirdly, if anything goes wrong, and things do go wrong sometimes, think Murphy's law, the disaster that awaits is horrifying beyond words. Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Remember Chernobyl? Surely you don't want to risk your predecessors for generations to come with unfavorable genetic effects. And let's not forget, nuclear power is generated from uranium, a limited natural resource, just like oil and gas.
Everything comes at a price. Everything comes with a catch.
Apart from the energy and food crisis, as of late, natural disaster of a terrifying magnitude is occurring at an unusually increasing frequency. First Haiti, and then Chile, followed by New Zealand and the latest, Japan. All in the span of a little over a year.
Scientists are discussing the seismic changes, how the human race hasn't seen the worse that the Earth could throw at us.
And yet, we the human is screaming unabashedly about saving the Earth, like we are actually doing the Earth a favor by cutting down energy consumption and reducing global warming.
Throughout the years, we have tremendously changed the landscape of Earth, we dried up Earth's natural resources that took centuries to form in a matter of just several decades, we scraped layers of ozones away, we might even be the reason for the increased temperature of the Earth's atmosphere. We believe that our greed for a great civilization has slowly poisoned the Earth.
We fail to realize that the Earth is God's genius creation that is bigger than you and me, it is more powerful than every man combined, walking on its soil. History has shown that it is capable of adapting to the most extreme changes; it shifts, it squirms, it hibernates until it reaches once again its equilibrium.
To even think that it needs saving from us, that's pretty ambitious, isn't it?
To really dwell into the thought that there's a bigger force out there, it is rather humbling. Helps put things into perspective.
