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What could happen if we just stopped oil?
Six billion might die
It's difficult to see how an immediate ban on fossil fuels will allow civilisation to continue and flourish
What could happen if we just stopped oil? Six billion might die
It's difficult to see how an immediate ban on fossil fuels will allow civilisation to continue and flourish
www.telegraph.co.uk
"But what would happen if we literally just stopped oil tomorrow and did without the natural resources on which the world, its economies and populations depend? The answer: most likely six billion people would die within a year."
Commentary:
Just about everything we do in this world is tied to oil and gas. That's a fact. These people that haven't done squat to understand even a tiny morsel of that and just demand we stop oil and gas, have absolutely zero idea of what they're talking about or can even fathom what that really means. Oil and gas isn't perfect but you have to take the good with the bad in everything you do in life and I for one am more than fine with being onboard with oil and gas. Wind and solar is a cute little bolt on, nuclear just doesn't make sense in terms of risk reward (one issue that we possibly can't control could end up rendering 1/3 of the world uninhabitable..uh no), geothermal is intriguing but isn't every necessarily everywhere and is incredibly expensive even when abundant and readily available.
Seriously, Any fool should know that a total global economic collapse would probably only leave a couple of billion or less alive. Wars and rumors of wars being what they are. This would be a conservatives guess.
The expectation of using solar and wind power to create the needed electricity for the world is an impossible dream at present.
Then we have had so called experts that the oil well would run dry for over 60 years.
See:
We've Been Incorrectly Predicting Peak Oil For Over a Century
When the residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma buried a car in 1957 as part of an enormous time capsule, they included containers of gasoline. The good people of
gizmodo.com
The notion that oil is a "fossil" fuel is a pipe dream of John Rockefeller in the early 1900's to make the ubiquitous mineral known as oil seem scarce, unreplenishable, precious, and expensive. It is and was a marketing thing. 100 years ago, you could almost poke your pinky at the ground, and it'd erupt with a gusher. They are not decayed dinosaurs or even plankton or whatever. "depleted" oil wells refill themselves after time. Scientist have proven that as fact
See:
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Rewriting the textbook on fossil fuels: New technologies help unravel nature's methane recipes
Experts say scientific understanding of deep hydrocarbons has been transformed, with new insights gained into the sources of energy that could have catalyzed and nurtured Earth's earliest forms of life.
phys.org