"If this post in Watts Up With That? is correct, an inadvertent, serendipitous scientific discovery is responsible for reshaping the modern world of geopolitics to America’s advantage – and nobody noticed.
...fracking was only half of the technology revolution that has remade the modern world.
...new satellite data reveals that North America is where most of the world’s hydrocarbon resources are located.
Read the whole thing, but this is the essence:...
Despite the fantasies of greenies, oil and gas are the lifeblood of world power and of most economic activity....We came to know who had what, just what fossil fuel reserves existed in the Middle East, Russia, China, as well as with Friendlies, such as Europe, Australia, Canada, and Mexico. This information has enormous geopolitical significance…possibly the greatest geopolitical significance of any human discovery ever.
With this knowledge and the ability to exploit it, the United States carries far more weight than it did ten years ago. "
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