SUMMARY:
6.0 billion people,
of the world's
7.5 billion people,
use between
1 and 14 barrels
of oil equivalent
energy per person,
per year.
The poorest
1.0 billion people
use an average
of only one
single barrel
of oil equivalent
per person,
per year --
mainly burning
wood and dried
animal dung !
How can we
(in Canada)
lecture them on
climate change,
while burning
64 barrels
per person,
per year ?
So, who wants
to climate change
lecture a very poor
African mother,
cooking a
scanty meal
over a dung fire,
while her children
blink and cough
from the smoke ?
DETAILS:
The Canadian
energy executive
Chris Slubicki of
Modern Resources
is an engineer.
He realizes poor people
all around the world
would love to use
more oil, gas and coal.
Slubicki takes
the environment
seriously, but
then he also
recognizes reality,
and explains it well:
According
to Slubicki,
of the world's
7.5 billion people,
Canada belongs to
the elite 1.5 billion
who use, on average,
the energy equivalent
of 34 barrels of oil
every year.
The next tier
of 2.5 billion
use the
equivalent
of 14 barrels
per person
per year.
And the next
tier of 2.5 billion
people use
just 4 barrels
per person
per year.
The top 1.5 billion
may use 34 barrels
equivalent a year.
But Canadians use
about 64 barrels of
oil equivalent
per person
per year.
Canada is
a cold country
with long distances
to travel, and has
a high standard
of living.
The poor countries
are in need of cheap
fossil fuel energy,
that works 100%
of the time.
So global fossil fuel needs
are going to keep growing.
Slubicki says the world
will get their oil and gas
from somewhere
-- from thugs and dictators,
if the democracies won't
sell them any.