The global energy landscape is complex and clouded by social/political agendas. Simplistic rhetoric classifying energy sources as clean and dirty, good and bad have polarized populations in Western Europe and North America, with a rallying cry for carbon-free energy sources, minimizing the environmental impacts that come from manufacturing and disposing “renewable” energies and batteries.

In this podcast, Dr. Scott Tinker, Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology and founder and Chairman of the Switch Energy Alliance takes us around the global to explore how nations are using different sources of energy to power their homes and their economies. We discuss the outlook for hydrocarbon-based energies into the future and the challenges they face in a world filled with growing energy demand and anti-oil sentiment in some political and geographic sectors.

We also discuss what we as an industry can do to proactively engage in constructive discourse around different sources of energy, and how hydrocarbons can contribute to the long-term health of nations and their citizens.