What is crude oil exploration?

Science - Extracting Oil?

• So my task is to choose the pro or con side of this resolution: Be it resolved that Canada should drastically reduce crude oil exploration, mining, transportation, use and export. ...show more

• Answer:

  There are no perfect solutions, just intelligent choices. People tend to imagine that they can have the benefits of technology without the processes that produce those benefits. Canada is a 1st World society. If you are lucky enough to live a First World Lifestyle, you must be willing to accept a Second or Third World Lifestyle. Why? Because First World Lifestyle depends on expenditure of energy to create and maintain it. And, the burning of fossil fuels is the only energy source concentrated enough and dependable enough to do that. Even nuclear with all its’ waste disposal and environmental problems cannot replace fossil fuel. 3 Example Questions you must address if you give up fossil fuel Food: Do you intend to become a subsistence farmer? How much land will you need for that? Have you checked out the lifestyle of subsistence farmers? Or, do you want diesel trucks and trains to continue to deliver food to your nearest market? Is it OK for farmers to have diesel tractors? Are pesticides ok? How about fertilizer? What is your plan to deal with the manure? Heat, Air Conditioning, and Light: When it gets cold, hot, or dark what is your plan? Are you ready to give up your computer, Smartphone, HDTV, etc? If you say "No" to the above questions, then you must be willing to accept the environmental effects associated with fossil fuels. If you say "yes" to the above questions, then what society do you intend to model your life style after? This may have no meaning to you, but: Thoreau was able to stand Walden only 2 years and then returned to "living on the grid." Living off the grid is tough.