DUDE its FINITE

1
DUDE its FINITE
2
The Fossil Fuel Era
fusion
A Brief Moment in Time
3
A Century of Change (1900 (1) vs 2000)

• Industrial Output 40
• Marine Fish Catch 35
• CO2 Emissions 17
• Total Energy Use 16
• Coal Production 7
• World Population 4
• Forest Area 0.8

4
Critical Question

• Can This Century also stand a 4-fold increase in
  world population (from 6 to 24 billion)
• Will the emerging world market of China promote
  this kind of growth in the same way the
  industrial revolution did?

5
United States Energy Usage
Transportation Ramp Up
Improved MPG
Increased Coal Usage
6
Transportation Craze

• Emerging Markets in India and China are source of
  real concern ? approaching 1 billion vehicles

7
Every year We Drive More Miles

• Hey, Its The American Way

8
(No Transcript)
9
Business As Usual
10
Possible Futures

• But role of clouds and aerosols are a major
  complication.

11
Our Fossil Fuel Legacy
12
But Hey We Are Green lets Hide the CO2 for
awhile
13
Ice Core Data is Revealing
Currently 380 PPM 30 higher than anytime in the
last 450,000 years
14
Future Scenarios Driven by The Developing World
15
(No Transcript)
16
And Lets Not Forget Methane

• 25x GWP of Carbon Dixoide
• Rice fields, cow slaughtering, sewage

17
Who Is to Blame?
And All the Rest of Us That Think We Are at the
Center of the Universe and therefore in a
Privileged Position in Nature
18
Humans and Nature

• Like it or not, Historically the collective of
  humanity has treated nature as a consumable
• Most wars/conflicts are related to resource
  shortages or the need to acquire new land
• Physics tells us we are in a necessary
  partnership with nature and that resources are
  finite
• Dont look to the past ? look to the future where
  humanity evolves out of its adolescent stage into
  a more cooperative stage