The Real Scarcity Is Not Resources — It’s Courage There’s no shortage of oil, gas, or critical metals in the world. According to the International Energy Agency, proven global oil reserves alone are sufficient to meet current demand for more than 50 years, while known reserves of copper, lithium, and rare earths continue to rise as exploration and technology improve. What we’re actually short on is guts, clarity, and governance — because political risk energy resources have become distorted by ideology, regulatory paralysis, and headline fear rather than geology, engineering, or economics. Greenland sits on a geological jackpot of rare earths, molybdenum, graphite, and potentially massive oil and gas deposits. Venezuela, meanwhile, has the largest crude reserves on the planet.…
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