# The future of oil and hydrocarbon man

- Institution: CERN
- Department: Science and Society
- Speaker: Colin Campbell
- Year: 1999
- Language: English
- Subjects: Physics
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3024064)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Man appeared on the planet about four million years ago, and by 1850 numbered about one billion Ten came Hydrocarbon man. World population has since increased six-fold. After the oil price shocks of the 1970s, people asked "when will production peak?". It is not easy to answer this question because of the very poor database. Reserves and the many different hydrocarbon categories are poorly defined, reporting practices are ambiguous, revisions are not backdated....

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## Lectures

1. [The future of oil and hydrocarbon man](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3024064/31d75da7d25e), 1 h 9 min (CERN's player)