Oil. Beast and treasure. Ostalsky A.

From the moment when in August 1859 the dark oily liquid hit the land in Pennsylvania with a fountain, the life of mankind rolled over. The era of cars and planes, tank armies, nylon and flights into space began.

oil smells not only by gray, but also huge, terrible money, power and secret.

over the oil empire The sun does not come in. Every day, an hour and a second somewhere in the world they pump, take, distort and turn it into a variety of, absolutely necessary things. Some say: the world is sitting on an oil needle. But the situation is much worse: oil is not a drug. She is the blood of civilization. The great amplifier of everything is both good and bad. Either a gift, or a curse. “Oil is the excrement of the devil, it brings misfortune,” said one of the founders of OPEC of Alfonso's OPEC.

In 125 years, humanity has spent one trillion barrels. The next trillion it will be in just 30 years. According to some estimates, oil reserves on Earth are just a little more than two trillion barrels.

are we ready for the world without oil? What will it be? Mass hunger? War for food? Cannibalism? Or maybe, on the contrary, the exhaustion of oil and gas is the same incentive that will push humanity to the transition to a new, higher level of civilizational development? But the attempt may be the only one.