Why oil and coal consumption is growing day by day?

Greed may explain many of the incongruous things that humanity tends to do. With complete certainty in the caves there were some Mr. Scrooge and all kinds of people trying to take advantage of the work of others or no interest in community affairs. But it would be simplistic to think that our problems come from selfish attitudes, all things considered many of the mistakes and atrocities in history were made thanks nice people with good intention added to ignorance, and record of stupid actions has that was making for love. But surely the little of selfishness that we all have, which individually doesn’t affect because most people behave when it is the moment honestly and generously, acts collectively producing really disasters that historians of all times trying to analyze and understand. However there are the most important elements that produce much more damage in my opinion, and we don’t usually deal with because they are part of our normal functioning, at the same time we believe that we are in fact doing the opposite. Today faced with the challenge of the economic debacle and especially climate change, it seems incomprehensible obstinacy that in one side it was trying repeatedly solutions that have demonstrated their disability, and on the other increasing the extraction and consumption of oil, gas and coal, when we are committed, not only to reduce CO2 emissions, but to reduce the amount itself.

We are predators. Unlike plants they owe their lives to the energy coming from the Sun, animals must eat living beings. If we would be vegetarians or carnivores depend on the nature around us, and from which we get the food, and we simply take whenever we can. Our cells were indistinguishable from the plant for several billions of years ago and since then it has been our modus operandi and other animals on this planet. Less than 6,000 years, since the Neolithic Revolution, we were become farmers. But is this activity so different from the depredations? Not. The predators are territorial and they have controlled their territory especially other potential competitors; from other hand the great herbivores collectors always cover the same pastures, and to different degrees control their food source; is to say our agriculture and livestock is only the sophistication of the basic predation. Furthermore activities such as mining, fishing and silviculture (woodcutters) are still pure predation activities. The basis of the human economy, for a lot and sophisticated are the curses of economist career, doesn’t differ much from that of a chimpanzee in Africa studied by Jane Goodall. In this sense the big mining companies, and including the oil and coal, pursue their prey minerals across the globe regardless of demand because they need to extract to live, and when they finish a source, they start another then.
Predation has a component of indifference towards the consequences of this. One of the classic tasks of archaeologists is to find lost cities. Typically these cities have been abandoned because of a resource dependent, usually water, which depleted. Agriculture and livestock is an attempt to control food resources in the sense that we take care of living beings which feed us, but we assume that magically water welling up forever; or scare the birds because we think that it eat planted grain, also this’s causing the panic of birds that eat parasites what kill the plant that gives us the grain. Currently kilometers square of forest are burned to cultivate, but the forest rich is in trees, the result is that new field becomes wasteland in two years, so they are continuing to destroy; now they are verified rainfall that has fallen from the jungles, it’s logical, that immense sea of green is at the same time a lake that floats in the air which the equatorial sun evaporates every morning and adiabatic expansion to lower returns as rain; final result is the end of rainforests. The mining companies do the same, no matter the consequences of their actions, the most important is to get the resource and sell it.
To think a new solution produces stress. Uncertainty is something extremely annoying to humans. On the other hand whenever you try something new there is the risk to do a mistake. In principle we should not worry about to lose, because of the defeats is where we learn, but we are living of the victories, and nobody wants to be the wise person of the cemetery. For this reason everyone chooses known solutions, although they are outdated, partial or inadequate. In the world of engineering are true atrocities that can be explained by the need to guarantee the result for bad that is being. We also think that the predators can not indefinitely fail to achieve food, when we more fail less possibility have to guess right, and nobody wants that pressure. 
So in the business world everyone wants to make sure. Although currently we lament the excessive risks taken by the managers, this is just a story invented to hide a criminal activity; managers haven’t taken any risk, simply it has been a strategy to seize money of investors, the demonstration is in that none has been ruined. The business world invests in oil and coal because they know that is a resource for at least 200 years, at the same time it has market and distribution channel. Obviously the business world protects this source of profit as much as possible.
Associated with uncertainty also avoids the complication. The complication has two penalties: the possibility of mistake and power consumption. Our brains to face challenges need a good structure, knowledge and agility; but this is expensive energy so our brain tends to optimize forgetting data and reducing structure, for this reason when we get older our brain loses, simply it optimized itself about our activities as our muscles doing; luckily when it is necessary it can regenerate itself, as demonstrated Rita Levi, but more slowly which makes that novelty what involves an effort is rejected as a first option. Moreover the possibility of mistake scares us, and new things and complicated are easily mistakable, consequently we avoid. It’s demonstrated that successful products are those that their assimilation doesn’t involve any effort or at least it seems us.

Luckily we have the adventure in our genes. Humanity would not be where it is if it were not for this. The problem is that only a few really just embarking on the road. The adventure has an element of uncertainty, as I explained in the previous section and this produces stress not to say panic. Only the brave or foolish are thrown away to this work, and few succeed, so most fail; and thanks to this effort now we aren’t poor monkeys in the Savannah waiting for to be the meal of lions. However it seems that we have forgotten and with the excuse of the crisis cut money for research. When known solutions are failing it like’s a total absurdity that they try to end the search for a solution at least different; in this sense I ignore why they don’t do, if they are so obtuse or simply they fear that it will find a solution that put them in evidence.

The key to any good business is to buy good, nice and cheap. This means known product. A new energy source can be very interesting but if somebody must add money for the investor wants guarantees: profitability, market, distribute and future. Profitability is an incognito because it’s still researching, we don’t know if it will be competitive towards other energy therefore ignore its market, obviously has yet to make the distribution network and that means long time forward reach consumers, and it has future? will it be able to resist the demand when it comes time or it will die succeed? Currently car brands seem to want to invest in electric car, but consumers don’t buy it. It is normal, as most urgent action is loading it is not possible, unless you're convinced of a cause and you know how you get it alone. But normal consumers want to consume without stress, so she/he doesn’t buy a car which will represent extra effort, just remember the reluctance at selective pick.

In short into the free market renewable energy sources aren’t alternative at petroleum and coal, essentially because they have won the position. For over 200 years we consume oil and coal and we are accustomed to their way of consuming it, a new type of energy must be consumed differently and humans don’t like changes. On the other hand the alternatives are very immature and money invested in them today is part of the foundations of a new industry that coal and oil already have, to invest in oil and coal is direct benefit while to invest in renewable energy is still very recoverable. Without a strong renewable energy policy action will remain second term, and this will not happen because the coal and oil lobbies are working to maintain the current status. 
Simply oil or coal are here and as we can make money, we will not stop until it will be exhausted. And they will exploit until it will be exhausting because we will continue consuming, it is the easiest way for consumers and it does not involve any effort or change habits. And the money intended for investment continues to oil and coal because they are a safe bet. You might ask for political will and commitments, well the electoral campaigns should pay someone, we can’t stop industries even they squander energy, and who is brave impedes fill the fuel tank with the current social-economic crisis.