Brace yourselves... Petroleum is no More

One of the most interesting things about civilizations is what keeps them together, Sometimes we wish it were a strong bond between the individuals, sometimes we learn that their survival is often of main concern. Nevertheless they sometimes perish, the bigger the more unstable seems to be, just like a Top Quark or atoms of the periodic Table bigger than Iron.

We have been in an energetic "summer" the past century, and we have had a really good time...                 But eventually it was time to face the truth, all things come to an end.       ..except for Protons, those buggers just don't decay...

Because of the incredible power-energy-impact Oil had over humanity, and the fact that it was so easy to extract, that is, so easy that even the preoccupation of finding long term sources of energy was mitigated. (Just like if all humanity was suddenly drunk). People with access to it were very rapidly transformed into the de facto rulers of the world, and acquiring more oil became the main concern of everyone:

"You don't have to think now, you only must get a piece of the cake by any means, and most of your problems were be solved"

We have never been drunk before, so we didn't know what to do with so much energy, advances were achieved by brute force approach, if you did things the less efficient way all your life it didn't matter, there was always more oil. You can always try again, Don't worry! i'll buy another one. Needless to say we became wasteful, and because of the Thermodynamic importance of this substance for humanity, society and the people were eventually affected and guided by the sweet-madness of abundance.

But, just like in the Series a Song of Ice and Fire, "Winter is coming", and the hangover will be legendary: Full of regret, frictions and stress, and lets hope not: Amnesia

"Im never doing this again".

 And hopefully sometime in the future we will have the discipline as an organized species to deal with energy bonuses in the most strategic and intelligent way, because in Winter the survivors are those with access to the Reserves. And the ones wich make magic with less.

 But spring wont come this time on its own, we'll have to chase it.