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> have to leave 75% of proven fossil reserves in the ground. To nitpick, I think you mean burn them. Oil into plastics has minimal emissions.
by A2017U1 7y ago
> have to leave 75% of proven fossil reserves in the ground.
To nitpick, I think you mean burn them. Oil into plastics has minimal emissions.
- diafygi 7y agoCorrect, but plastics and other non-burned uses only accounts for <10% of oil and gas. So you'd have to 10x the number of petrochemical products to make up for the decrease in burned product. Plastics are a pretty mature industry, so 10x is well outside the range of what's possible.