The name of this blog has a powerful meaning. Let me fill you in.
Did you know scientists estimate that we will begin to see huge, irreversible effects of climate change in the year 2050? Similarly, the world population at that time will have grown to a whopping 10 billion people.
This means that 10 billion people will…
- Be personally impacted by increased sea levels that will have rendered many coastal cities uninhabitable.
- Experience stronger, more frequent hurricanes and out of control wildfires whose destructive power we have only gotten a glimpse of in 2020.
- Live through a global climate migration as the 1% of Earth’s barely habitable hot zones grow to a projected 19% in 2070.
These are just a few of the the things we know for sure, and the list continues.
10 billion people will have their own individual carbon footprints. Just like us, the food they eat, energy they consume, and products they purchase will all contribute to collective greenhouse gas emissions, plastic waste, and environmental contamination.
At this point, it will be too late to make any impactful changes as the effects of climate change will be essentially irreversible. This will happen if we continue on the same, easy path we have been that requires no change or sacrifice.
The reality is that the easy path is rarely the “right” decision. In many ways, we have a moral obligation as a society to take care of future generations.
Aside from that, most of the people who will live through the effects of our society’s unwillingness to change are already living. Those who aren’t will be our children and grandchildren. We owe it to them to try to make their future livable.
As a chemical engineer with experience in oil, gas, and chemical manufacturing, I hope to educate you on all of the intricacies that drive change within these industries. In a world of extremes, I aim to offer a rational, unbiased viewpoint based on logic, data, and real-world experiences.
Rather than viewing oil, gas, and related industries as “bad,” I hope to convince you that they are necessary to sustain our way of life. Rather than ignoring the environmental problems surrounding them, I hope to acknowledge these problems and argue that if we each individually do our part, these industries will feel societal pressure and, through innovation, become the key to solving the climate change and plastic waste crises.
My goal is to bring forward a middle-ground perspective focused on collaborative results to the forefront of our conversations on climate change and plastic waste.