Oil reserves

Recently I read some news about discovery of oil reserves in Australia and Cambodia. The latest piece is from Bangkok Post. (http://www.bangkokpost.com/
breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=112371)

Long time ago a piece of news said the Earth only remains enough coal and oil for us to use 30 years more. After that we will have no resources of those.

After knowing the new oil reservoirs, I am thinking that it is probably good to find new oil owing to the insufficient supply, but on the other hand we speed up the exploitation of the Earth resources.

I wonder, whether we are accerlating the progress of using up all the reserves in our planet, or we are discovering more potential reserves for us. Doubtlessly we are using the reserves much faster than the nature can build. It is out of the capacity.

In recent years, sustainability or sustainable development is advocated. If we search in Wikipedia, it will tell you "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" according to the Brundtland Report, a 1987 report from the United Nations.

Sometimes man tends to be contradictive. We know we have to save for the future, whereas we try to find more resources for us. When we discover, we use them; we do not often save anything. We have not really left time for the nature to recover - clearing large piece of forest, getting as much water as we can, digging as much oil or coal as we can and so on.

Definitely some scientists are developing new technology to meet our needs, and I believe they are doing their best. Nevertheless their pace is far slower than people consuming. That means before a solution is invented, we have already used up all we have and are starving.

The contradictory inspires me to think philosophically. Man tends to understand what it should or should not do, but it does not often follow. We blame ourselves, and sometimes we forgive our faults at the same time by saying this is our nature that we cannot vary. I am not very clear about this - some say we cannot vary our character, so we have to forgive and accept some of our faults, but sometimes we punish the wrongdoers; some say we know our character and defects, that's why we have to improve.

People probably have their own way to cope with their lives, yet there are still some general patterns. It is very interesting to acquaint these patterns, but sometimes it is those patterns that create questions, doubts, matters and problems.

Very hard to understand, yet I still have one question - can we just leave it to an explanation - "this is life"? Does it sound rather irresponsbile and dispirited if we always explain in this way?

Or, in fact we should not think that much, which is even more negative?

I do not think so, when we still have the capacity to go further, do more and discover more.