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The most underrated threats to modern society
- jacques_chester 16y agoI'm not too fussed about peak oil causing a sudden unavailability of petrochemical products, for the reason that coal can be cracked down to oil. And there's a lot of coal left. And if we run out of coal, wood can be cracked down to oil. And we've got a grip on this tree-growing business.
- kristianp 16y agoNot to mention the huge amounts of LNG capacity that's coming online around the world.
- mrgordon 16y agoOnly if you don't mind that drilling for Marcellus Shale is destroying our aquifers and covering America in endocrine disruptors, carcinogens, and radioactive compounds :( Here are some reports from affected landowners collected as part of a MIT research project: http://wellwatch.org/wiki/ComplaintsAndNotes http://wellwatch.org/wiki/ComplaintsAndNotes Also see the recent study from Ithaca about natural gas being worse for emissions than coal while having more of the bad effects up front.