{"id":62532,"date":"2022-04-25T15:38:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T20:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62532"},"modified":"2022-04-25T15:38:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T20:38:21","slug":"geodestinies-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62532","title":{"rendered":"GeoDestinies 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Walter Youngquist (1921-2018) was a petroleum geologist, a University of Oregon professor, and my friend.\u00a0 His life\u2019s masterpiece is a 600 page book that\u2019s now available to everyone as a free PDF download [HERE<\/a>].<\/p>\n

Geologists study Earth resources, many of which are being degraded and depleted \u2014 aquifers, topsoil, hydrocarbons, minerals, etc.\u00a0 These resources have limits.\u00a0 Every drinker learns that the glass starts full, ends empty, and the faster you drink it, the quicker it\u2019s gone. \u00a0Consumers pay little attention to resource limits, but they\u2019re beginning to comprehend the impact of carbon emissions on the climate.\u00a0 Mainstream experts repeatedly tell us not to worry.\u00a0 They preach a fervent blind faith in miracles \u2014 a smooth and easy transition to a clean, green, renewable utopia.\u00a0 Geologists wince.<\/p>\n

Youngquist didn\u2019t believe in miracles or techno utopias.\u00a0 Today, we\u2019re living dangerously fast by destroying astonishing amounts of nonrenewable resources \u2014 a onetime binge that can never again be repeated.\u00a0 Nonrenewable energy is finite.\u00a0 We have been soaring in a beautiful dream world, where the air is perfumed with the intoxicating aroma of a nonrenewable prosperity.\u00a0 The era of cheap energy is fading away in the rear view mirror.<\/p>\n

In 1973, the Eugene newspaper wrote a story about one of his lectures, \u201cDark Picture Painted by Youngquist.\u201d\u00a0 He gave many talks to Chamber of Commerce groups, trying to introduce them to the concept of limits.\u00a0 He was almost never invited back.\u00a0 America worships perpetual growth at any cost.\u00a0 Growth is our god word.<\/p>\n

In the mid-1990s, a number of the world\u2019s petroleum geologists became alarmed that the volume of new oil discovered was declining, while the volume of consumption continued soaring.\u00a0 This inspired the dawn of the Peak Oil movement, a wakeup call.\u00a0 In 1997, Youngquist published\u00a0GeoDestinies<\/em>, which quickly sold out…<\/p>\n

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GeoDestinies 2022 Walter Youngquist (1921-2018) was a petroleum geologist, a University of Oregon professor, and my friend.\u00a0 His life\u2019s masterpiece is a 600 page book that\u2019s now available to everyone as a free PDF download [HERE]. Geologists study Earth resources, many of which are being degraded and depleted \u2014 aquifers, topsoil, hydrocarbons, minerals, etc.\u00a0 These […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[32863,4548,10003,31035],"class_list":["post-62532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-geodestinies","tag-geology","tag-resource-limits","tag-walter-youngquist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62533,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62532\/revisions\/62533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}