A State of the World Address: The Climate Speech We'll Probably Never Hear | Frankly 160

Hagens argues climate change is one symptom of a deeper energy/resource predicament with no clean political or technical fix available.

• Energy inheritance framing: A barrel of oil, costing under $100, delivers work equivalent to five years of human physical labor—paid at roughly 1/100th to 1/1000th its true economic value.
• Scale of burn: The world consumes roughly 100 million barrels of oil per day plus coal and gas, driving the atmospheric and oceanic changes described.

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