Our future can be either "good" or "bad" says Ugo Bardi

Ugo Bardi.

Our future can be “good” or “bad” depending on how we react to the collision of events the world is presently experiencing.

The founder and president of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, Italia, Ugo Bardi, has written about the past and possible alternatives that he sees for our future.

In a story on the Peal Oil website, Mr Bardi wrote in a story headed: “Ugo Bardi: The next ten billion years”, canvassed the dilemmas humanity face.

He takes what he describes as a “telescopic sweep of scenario building” in an attempt to help us understand what our future could be like, explaining it in both good and bad terms.

Looked at from the comfortable perspective of today neither is all that encouraging, but until we respond to the unfolding scenario in a way that illustrates that we put the welfare of people ahead of the short-termism of profit, the Bardi’s “bad” outcome appears inevitable.