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Fossil fuels: a crisis of resources or effluents?
Author(s) -
WOODCOCK NIGEL H.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
geology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.188
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1365-2451
pISSN - 0266-6979
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2451.1993.tb00470.x
Subject(s) - fossil fuel , economic shortage , harm , coal , natural resource economics , work (physics) , geology , environmental protection , environmental science , waste management , engineering , political science , economics , law , government (linguistics) , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy
Most professional geologists are employed to find oil, gas and coal. They work for a society constantly concerned about future supplies of fossil fuels. Yet now the global atmospheric pollution from burning these fuels threatens to harm society sooner than any shortage of resources. Caught amidst the fossil fuel debate, how should geologists respond?