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    This document summarizes key points about the history and future of oil and fossil fuels. It discusses how scientists discovered the greenhouse effect and made predictions about climate change. It notes that 84% of our primary energy comes from oil and fossil fuels. The document also outlines predictions that we need to stop using fossil fuels by 2030 to curb temperature rise. Finally, it discusses the goal of achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and the challenges of transitioning away from oil while ensuring developing nations have access to energy.

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    This document summarizes key points about the history and future of oil and fossil fuels. It discusses how scientists discovered the greenhouse effect and made predictions about climate change. It notes that 84% of our primary energy comes from oil and fossil fuels. The document also outlines predictions that we need to stop using fossil fuels by 2030 to curb temperature rise. Finally, it discusses the goal of achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and the challenges of transitioning away from oil while ensuring developing nations have access to energy.

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    The End of Oil_Explained

    1. What did Eunice Foote do? What did she ‘discover’?

    Made an experiment = filled one tube with regular air an another with carbon dioxide. She
    saw that carbon dioxide got hotter.

    2. What did Edwin Drake do?

    Discorvered oil petrol

    3. What did scientists do in 1965? What predictions did Exxon scientists make in 1988?

    Warn presidents about green house effect. Green predictions.

    4. What percentage of our primary sources of energy come from oil and from fossil fuels?

    84%

    5. What are fossil fuels?

    Endanger our species. Substances that produce energy.

    6. What are we on track to do by 2030?

    To stop the use of fossil fuels. Temperature will increase.

    7. Why is it so hard to ‘turn off the tap’, so to speak? Do you think we can do it in time, cut
    our dependency? How?

    There’s not enough technology developed.

    8. The story of oil is……


    Dominance, competition.

    9. What is black gold?

    Oil.

    10. What happened in Nigeria regarding oil?

    Become the most industrialized nation, extracted by bp.

    11. Coal, natural gas, and crude oil origins were created by…..

    The sun

    12. What affect did oil have on World War I?


    Ships, airplanes, etc.

    13. “Oil put the world in motion.” – Analyze and unpack this quote

    14. Define ‘lopsided’:

    Uneven.

    15. Why were the profits of oil lopsided?

    Iran took most of profits.

    16. What happened in 1953 in Iran?

    Seize the oil property.

    17. What happened in Biafara?


    Seceding. Government blocked, in war, a lot of people died. They surrendered

    18. What is OPEC?

    19. What is the ‘resource curse’? Who gets the majority of the profit of a resource?

    Countries don’t do better because they have natural resources, they can make other
    industries better. Government.

    20. How many miles of toxic spills? Average life expectancy age?

    27 thousand miles. 41 years.

    21. Annual emissions vs. Cumulative emissions: What does this mean?

    22. Who faces the brunt of the effects of global warming and disasters?

    Developing countries

    23. By 2050 we must…..

    Get to net zero with emisions

    24. What is ‘net zero’? What does that mean? Carbon capture technology?

    Produce carbon but offset it.

    25. Why are emissions dropping in Europe and the United States but not dropping globally?

    Because its occurring in china, developing world along.

    26. How much of the Nigerian population doesn’t have access to electricity? What else
    happens to the power supply?

    Almost half. It comes back at 2 and goes at 8pm.


    27. What is this idea of ‘leapfrogging’? What is the hypocrisy of wealthy countries vs.
    developing nations regarding energy?

    Developing countries can jump over to new technologies. Equal conditions of


    technology.

    28. One of the ideas is that the ‘Global North’ should pay a climate debt to developing
    nations for the exploitation of the Earth to have helped them grow their wealth and
    allow developing nations to develop using renewables. Do you agree or disagree? Why
    or why not?

    29. What is the Green Climate Fund?

    Help developing nations transition.

    30. What happens to used gas and diesel cars?

    Exported to countries like Nigeria.

    31. Who must ‘contribute’ to the solution?

    Companies (Oil)

    32. Is the future really pushing towards an ‘end to oil’ according to oil companies current
    investments?

    33. What is the solution to climate change and will we achieve our goal of net zero by 2030?
    Yes or no? Why or why not?
    Work together, help for the transition. Investments.

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