> But it's also pesticides, machinery, medicin, chewing gum, sports equipment, textiles, toothpaste, guitar strings, contact lenses, fishing lures and I could g

> But it's also pesticides, machinery, medicin, chewing gum, sports equipment, textiles, toothpaste, guitar strings, contact lenses, fishing lures and I could go on. How about adding concrete (coal) and asphalt [0] to that list? A world without fossil fuels would indeed look dramatically different. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphalt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphalt