All indications suggest that the current tendency towards unrelenting demand will persist throughout the coming decades, a result of developed nations’ economic growth simultaneously magnified by the increasing prominence of developing nations.

According to experts, energy production, like demand, will continue to solely centre on fossil fuels. Unfortunately, it seems that no viable economic alternative currently exists for significant, medium-term, substitutive energy sources. Clearly, the combination of finite resources and incessant demand, along with production capabilities unable to keep up with consumer trends, will spark tensions in the global economy that could affect today’s norms and lifestyles as we know them.

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