Thursday, June 05, 2008

More oil to burn

They've announced that there is much more oil in the North Sea fields than was originally thought. New technology and higher prices have made it viable to more or less double what was originally thought to be the capacity of the oil fields. This could give us as much as thirty years more supply of the "black gold".
That's all right then.
We can all sit back in our cars in the knowledge that we can now pass on the problem of lack of oil to future generations.
But . . . does that mean we can continue to poison the atmosphere to the point where future generations' existence is put in jeopardy?
We still have to look to other ways of life which do not poison our planet.
If we continue with our present way of life it could lead to the extinction of many endangered species on this planet - perhaps including mankind.

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