随着工业时代的开始，先是煤，然后是石油，最后是天然气成为社会变革的推动力。在过去50年里，世界上的能源需求量增加了4倍以上。如果全球的能源开采量保持在目前的水平上，那么石油在42年后将枯竭，天然气和煤分别在66年和150年后也将耗尽。事实上，几乎所有的预测都表明， With the beginning of the industrial age, coal was first, then oil, and finally natural gas became the driving force of social change. In the past 50 years, the world’s energy demand has more than quadrupled. If global energy extraction remains at current levels, oil will be depleted in 42 years and natural gas and coal will be depleted in 66 and 150 years, respectively. In fact, almost all the projections show that,