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Clarifying "10,000 days to produce" statistic

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Clarifying "10,000 days to produce" statistic

Unread postby aneurysm » Tue 17 May 2011, 23:38:26

Hi there,

I read the book "The Ecology of Commerce" by Paul Hawken (1993), which features the following quote:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')very day the world wide economy burns an amount of energy that this planet required 10,000 days to create.


Given the age of the book, that statistic is from the 1990s (or possibly 1980s). Is anyone able to provide me with an updated figure?
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Re: Clarifying "10,000 days to produce" statistic

Unread postby Keith_McClary » Wed 18 May 2011, 00:28:22

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('aneurysm', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')very day the world wide economy burns an amount of energy that this planet required 10,000 days to create.
So:
Every year the world wide economy burns an amount of energy that this planet required 10,000 years to create.

Every 100 years the world wide economy burns an amount of energy that this planet required 1,000,000 years to create.

I think it would be more like 100,000,000 years, so the number in the original statement should be more like a 1,000,000. I think rocdoc has described the geological eras when oil was formed.
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Re: Clarifying "10,000 days to produce" statistic

Unread postby aneurysm » Thu 19 May 2011, 21:07:46

My main question is finding a current daily consumption rate for oil (which is sure to be higher than in the 1990s when the stat was produced), and then updating the relevant geological time figure.

Anyone know where to point me for the answer? (Or for similar startling one-liner statistics).
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