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or global warming from oil, there is still the lack of adequate supplies for future needs. The price of oil in October 1999 in the United States was $8 a barrel of oil. It is now around $100 a barrel. That is in only eight and a half (8 ) years. The United States had 324 oil refineries in 1981; now only 148, causing them to import more of their oil at an additional cost of about $.99 (99 cents) a barrel. There can be no stability for any nation with oil needs. There needs to be a rethinking of the future direction for all nations.

In addition to the price rises of oil which makes gasoline and other products for modern life, the rapidly growing economies of India, China, and Russia will require large amounts of oil. That problem is magnified by major oil exporting countries developing rapidly and using more of their own oil, leaving less to export. Mexico and Iran will need more than they produce in about five (5) years. These exporting nations will not be exporting oil; they will be importing, making for scarcity in supply and causing very high prices. That does not even take into account weather damage, ageing oil rigs, vandalism and terrorism against pipelines, or political. instabilities and pressures

We have praised scientists and their technology and wisdom for over forty years. Now as they warn us with their scientific evidence and pictures of the reality of what is happening in the world, we need to trust that they probably have a good reason to warn us so intensely.

Global warming is a real and present threat; but if it were not, pollution is enough of a threat to our air, land, water, and food, to be a present danger. If global warming and pollution were not threats to our survival, the energy crisis will destroy our food distribution system, cause famine, poverty, war and crime and will be a very present danger. If global warming, pollution, and the energy crisis were not present dangers, the health needs of our diseased populations, our weak, infirmed people from lack of exercise and sunshine is a very present danger. All these things should make developed nations, those promoting development, and developing nations take a good look at the evidence blaring at us in the daily news, so we do not continue or promote destructive ways.

Adapting to global climate change and other world problems is easy with the evidence in front of us. Developing nations have the evidence from developed nations who caused the problems not knowing the future. Now the future is known. We have the option of the same things getting worse; or we can head toward a garden paradise of edible vegetation and useful animals for fresh food and healthy bodies. The future is ours; we all need to adapt wisely.

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