quinta-feira, 22 de novembro de 2012

Non-Petroleum Dependence



World today is like a junkie
We need to have non-petroleum dependence in the world. It’s not only necessary for the planet ecological survival; it’s critical to the health and well-being of every human. Sooner or later we are all going to have to face changes to our way of life.

Clean and renewable kinds of energy
It’s so obvious that the global oil supply will not sustain an overpopulated planet and everyone agrees that extraction, distribution and burning of fossil fuels contribute to environmental problems. In the near future the world’s economic dependence on petroleum production will continue to grow because we have implemented few clean and renewable energy alternatives. We need to find, and apply alternatives from renewable sources of energy reducing Human impact in the world.

Enviromental problems
What alternatives energy sources exist to replace our present great dependency on petroleum? The car industry will broke? We have the technologic for that? The alternative is following the coal or oil-based path; suffering from price volatility import dependence, mounting pollution and health problems and expensive retrofits. We know how to do. The alliance to save energy believes that with just few adjustments, society will make the jump from unlimited oil comsuption to sustainable economies based on improved energy efficiency.

Petroleum finances the politicians and "dictators"
The problem is more political than technological. It is an economic and political thing, as the price of oil increases, the first to suffer will be the world’s poorer nations. Barrels prices will rise significantly and some political figures (something like dictators) will be more rich and powerful in their countries. But, renewable means cheap energy. When the product is cheap they don’t have money to finance the next presidential elections.

The citizens of the industrial world suffer from collective ecological blindness that reduces their collective sense of “connectedness” to the ecosystem that sustains them. 
It’s not when, but how we will do this transition.