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Of course I mean all energy. I don't understand why everyone think only of electricity. Globalisation relies on transports, and transports rely at more than 90%
by wazoox 6y ago
Of course I mean all energy. I don't understand why everyone think only of electricity. Globalisation relies on transports, and transports rely at more than 90% on oil. Oil is the blood of our global world, and there's no credible alternative in sight (the peak, OTOH, is well in sight and could even be behind us already).
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoAlternatives were around for at least 40 years - all large ships could be nuclear powered, and everything that can't run on batteries could run on synthetic methane, biofuel or hydrogen. And perhaps transport is too cheap, how does it make sence that a pair of jeans travels the world 3 times before it lands on the shelf, or that fish is caught in scotland, de-boned in malasia and sold in US. Perhaps what we call globalisation is a poorly designed, tax-evading, fragile, energy-wasting system.
- wazoox 6y ago> Perhaps what we call globalisation is a poorly designed, tax-evading, fragile, energy-wasting system. Oh boy yes indeed.
- deepnotderp 6y agoIt takes almost as much energy to transport your food by car from the supermarket as it takes to ship it by cargo ship. Also: https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoThis is great, very informative. I was grinding my axe against the transport that exploits cheaper workforce elaewhere, rather than georgraphy/resources that might actually reduce emissions.