Summary

Our unrelenting quest for more and more industrialization, powered by cheap energy has indeed brought prosperity. Energy will continue to remain vital but not from the major source as we know it today- fossil fuels. This is so because its abundance or lack has been that of crisis and conflict. High energy prices triggered high food prices while cheap oil increases consumption which raises pollution levels. We should not bask in the euphoria that we have fared better than our forefathers, except we bequeath a healthy planet to our unborn kids by diversifying into a cleaner form of energy.