How will mankind use its last drop of oil? How do you think? Write in and we’ll publish your better ideas! Here are two alternatives:
Sustainers: the last drop of oil is used in the crane that fitted the last blade to the last wind-turbine we will ever need.
Parasites: the last drop will be delivered to a F1 car. Hundreds of men in anoraks (who have walked long distances) have gathered for the spectacle. The engine turns over and they all sigh and then cheer. Then the last engine dies. Then everyone looks at each other and ask ‘what do we do now?’. So they all walk home again. They walk home past the unfinished solar power plants and lifeless fields and think to themselves “well, that was fun, what shall we do for a laugh tomorrow?”
Of course, many will argue that we should never extract that Oil. They are right. But, realistically this won’t stop the parasites from taking that Oil anyway. So we must think of using that enormous endowment of nature’s trapped sunshine to build a future sustainable society BEFORE we piss it away of motor-racing, wars and other terrible things. We must use it to build the future and break free from the Fossil Fuel Dependency syndrome. Lets build that future now before we tempted to start extracting all that Coal and Shale Oil – now that is a real disaster. We need to use the remaining endowment with vastly more wisdom that we used the first half.