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Maybe in a few decades. But for today, we still need it to make tiny booms in little metal boxes to move big boxes with rubber tubes.
by withinboredom 5y ago
Maybe in a few decades. But for today, we still need it to make tiny booms in little metal boxes to move big boxes with rubber tubes.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoThe more painful it is in the short term, the faster we get to an oil free (realistically, a greatly reduced oil future) future. No one is getting off of cheap oil. It should be as painful as possible to use petroleum.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoSociety doesn't work like that especially when you're talking about a commodity (energy) that fairly directly affects the quality of life of everyone on the planet. Make it too painful and you'll get a "people who want an oil free future" free future. History is littered with stories of autocrats who tried to push society too far forward too fast. Society is an amorphous blob that simply responds to inputs. It doesn't care that you have good intentions. Hand waving about a sticks based policy makes for a great circle jerk but in the real world you need carrots, political will, consensus, etc. to go with the sticks or you are doomed to failure.
- withinboredom 5y agoDon’t forget about plastic!
- llampx 5y agoI would like you to do a thought exercise about how many petroleum-based products you use and how your life would be affected if the supply of oil was severely limited or the price went up even more than it already has since 2020.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoHaving kids who I am borrowing the planet from, I am happy to change my life or pay more to reduce my petroleum consumption as close to zero as possible. Oil can go to $200/barrel, even more. Does it suck the entire species has been borrowing on energy credit for the last 120 years? Absolutely. Junkie has to kick a habit eventually if they want to survive, and we as a species are a junkie addicted to cheap fossil fuels, and withdrawal is going to be admittedly painful. Business as usual is just not an option, and the cost of everything will rise as energy deleveraging occurs and the true costs are paid. And so, again, I support whatever mechanisms have second order effects of destroying demand for fossil fuels.
- llampx 5y agoI unfortunately fear the next generation will pay the price in the form of a fucked climate and high energy prices.