Scott Tinker: Can The World Energy Supply Become Fully Sustainable?

As we claim often here at PeakProsperity.com: Energy is everything. Will our global society be able to transition off of its extreme dependence on fossil fuels? And if so, can we do so without too much pain?

Scott Tinker is the Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin, and founder of the non-profit Switch Energy Alliance, which is dedicated to helping humanity address these key questions. Tinker remains confident a much better future energy-wise is possible; but will require a tremendous shift in behavior, investment and technological innovation. In his eyes, society can make the transition. But will it? That's a lot less certain...

Christopher Martenson is a former American biochemical scientist. Currently he is a writer and trend forecaster interested in macro trends regarding the economy, energy composition and environment. He is the founder of PeakProsperity.com. As one of the early econobloggers who forecasted the housing market collapse and stock market correction years in advance, Chris rose to prominence with the launch of his seminal video seminar which later became a book called The Crash Course. Chris' latest book (co-authored with Adam Taggart) is called Prosper!: How to Prepare for the Future and Create a World Worth Inheriting.