Will the end of the oil era be an opportunity to solve the impact of global warming?

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To answer this question, it is necessary to describe a scenario under the perspective of consumption and demand for hydrocarbons, as this can have a positive influence on the effects of climate change and warming but in the long term, as the covid -19 pandemic has only provided us with a very short time with low greenhouse gas emissions so that the planet can regenerate.

To understand that this short time of the extended quarantine product of covid-19 is not enough time for our planet to regenerate I present you the following example:

Suppose an individual spends 5 years eating high fat food and achieves morbid obesity that can put him/her at risk of death.

If that person lasted 5 years consuming high fat food and with physical inactivity, do you think that in 4 months you will be able to recover a stable weight that will get you out of that risk of death?

The logical thing to do would be to think that if you lasted that long consuming fat and being inactive, then spend the same time (5 years) exercising and eating healthy in order to regain your health.

Similarly, our planet has since the time of the industrial revolution polluting the air with carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and other greenhouse gases, very badly think that if the planet has ever been to this pollution for so long, then now in a short time we intend to achieve recovery in such a short time.

While it is true that in this short time in which the covid-19 has lasted there has been a notable decrease in greenhouse gas emissions, it is not enough time for the planet to be completely healed.

The favourable scenario for the regeneration of our planet and that will finally be able to abolish the phenomenon of global warming and climate change lies in achieving that technology and science can advance towards a new form of energy that is potentially superior to energy derived from hydrocarbons and can displace and replace hydrocarbons completely.

Renewable energies such as wind, solar, geothermal, hydraulic, among others, have been changing to a level where we still cannot obtain a potential where we have full capacity to replace energy generation derived from hydrocarbons, therefore due to the energy demand that is increasingly required as a product of our lifestyle increasingly adapted to the comfort of a contemporary world, we will continue to exploit more hydrocarbons and emit more greenhouse gases once we manage to recover from this pandemic.

The other thing to consider is that it seems that the recovery of our planet is inversely proportional to the existence of humanity, since it seems that the stability and recovery of our planet depends on our existence, while the human species is with possibilities of continuing to exist not A favorable environment will be generated so that the planet can recover from global warming, the possibilities that the planet will recover from a food that is once humanity can completely cease its activity as we know it today.

Everything is an irreversible process where there is no possibility of a return

They imagine that the human species has the possibility of living as it did in the era where the industrial revolution had not yet developed, with success many think like me, in which I see that possibility remotely, so I think then that if that possibility does not exist, the phenomenon of global warming and climate change may end up being an irreversible process, because there is no possibility that we change completely to a lifestyle without greenhouse gas emissions, where the only thing that controls and regulates us are pandemics like the ones we are currently experiencing, what I really see is a rather discouraging future, where we are only going through a transitional period, in which we have seen small favourable results as a result of the confinement to which the covid 19 has us, but which unfortunately once we return to daily activities we will continue to pollute with greenhouse gas emissions.

Conclusion

If we assume the oil industry as a potential industry in decline and that it can reach the end of an era, we could think that then in an emerging energy industry, which at present has not arrived and that it was very important to have as a substitute in order to continue having a modern lifestyle. The ideal would be to find an energy source that is highly potential with zero greenhouse gas emissions and at the same time is low in production cost.

As we all know those ideal conditions have not arrived, so unfortunately I think that once this pandemic passes, the illusions of a planet without the phenomenon of global warming will vanish, it seems that we are devices to extinguish ourselves as a species and let our planet continue to live, or on the contrary continue in that incessant search for an energy source that manages to cover and replace the energy of hydrocarbons.