Research Book Post #4- The Future of Oil- Sanjay Patel- Pages 100-130

   In the beginning of this section, Patel writes about if one should worry about higher GHG emissions from oil sands. He goes on to show that GHG emissions have in fact doubled since the beginning of oil sand production. Later in this section Patel shows what strides are being made to reduce GHG emissions in our world today. Oil sand production uses lots of energy which is one of the reasons GHG emissions went up when oil sand production started, so with scientists developing more renewable forms of energy the production of oil sands will not raise GHG emissions as high. The tail end of this section is chapter 6 which talks about the threats oil production poses to biodiversity including the changing of the earths surface.