OPEC Secretary General Haitham al-Ghais said the sustainability of the global energy system is literally simply "at stake" According to the OPEC Secretary General, the oil industry needs investments of about $12.1 trillion or about $500 billion a year in order to solve this problem systematically. The world will indeed need much more energy, and not in the long term, but quite in the medium term, he says.
"The salvation of the drowning, apparently, will now be taken into their own hands"