The Era of Burning Things is Over
From campfires to coal plants, it is ending
As a species we inherited a world filled with fuels. Plant matters had been sequestering carbon for millions and millions of years. That carbon had gradually piled up in the ground in the form of oil, gas, and coal. A natural fertilizer, it encouraged the lush growth of plant life which, in turn, helped evolution create animal life, including, eventually, us.
You might say the planet had been preparing Eden for all those millennia. And we thrived with easy access to all that fuel and every other natural resource imaginable.
We thrived a little too well, until we were stretching those resource gifts far beyond imagining. And so we find ourselves here, in this time, still burning things on a scale no eco-system can sustain.
A new age of energy is inevitable
It may take us a century and a lifetime of catastrophic weather, but eventually the fossil fuel lockhold will fall to pieces. The economics will just not hold. Mankind has evolved and developed technology that solves our energy needs more efficiently without all that burning.
The age of campfires is finally ending.
