World Energy: A Slippery Bet

We’re gambling on positive hearsay about energy issues, just as it did on global warming

Nobody knows what is really going on under the Earth’s surface. There are mathematical models, there are on site personnel, geologists, but no one in the world can say for sure exactly where we stand on oil supply. Because this is true, people (who also populate governments, cabinets, corporations as well as ordinary households) tend to be susceptible to believing what they want to believe. Even so, everyone is entitled to the opportunity to guess what the situation is.
We are already seeing that our interminable speculations on climate change have cost us dearly, and will continue to have a disastrous impact. People right now in Europe (Rome with nighttime temperatures of 27.1