US plans for a post-oil world

As a catholic middle aged man, I am strongly aware of the Church’s positive ruling on the validity of the Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima Portugal during the early 20th Century.

Our Lady accordingly, if I am not mistaken, said that an era of peace and prosperity will be granted to mankind if certain conditions are met.

I think that the transition to renewable energy sources that are clean and abundant for as long as the Sun shines at more or less its current output (roughly 5 billion more years) can play a major role here. Imagine a time when there is plenty of energy for all and this energy is clean and taken from the ambient environment. Plenty of energy translates into plenty of food and clean water for all mankind and sunny days even more pristine that the beautiful day we had here in my home town today.

It truly frustrates me to hear some fellow Catholics state that Global Warming is a left wing myth and that we should use the resources we have in the form of oil, natural gas, and coal. This notion that somehow God will provide humanity with energy technology is in a sense, a rejection of personal and collective responsibility.

From certain other Christian Denominations, especially those who believe that the so-called rapture is coming within the next few decades if not sooner, the idea of renewable energy is even more ignored because these individuals feel that the world is coming to an end in their lifetimes and as a result, the prospect of renewable energy is a moot point.

As a conservative Catholic, I strongly and perhaps ironically to some, see a brilliant future for humanity wherein the process of procreation within this world and within this universe as we establish off world colonies can continue for a period time of truly cosmic extent. The idea of clean and plenty of energy for all allowing innumerable more human souls to be created by God along with the conception of the human embryo excites me more than the thought that some rapture will magically take us away from our troubles in such a manner that we need not concern our selves with the future survival of humanity and the tremendous unlimited growth of the spiritual cosmos as a result, at least in part, of the creation of an infinite number of human souls which are immortal in nature. We owe the gift of existence to all of the human persons who have the potential to be created. To forgo planning for their future creation and a clean and prosperous environment for them is I believe wrong if not at least at some level, morally culpable.