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Explain to people around you. Eventually this has to percolate to the government. It is a question a national security, for every country. If a country wants
by llsf 4y ago
Explain to people around you. Eventually this has to percolate to the government. It is a question a national security, for every country. If a country wants to secure its GDP, then it needs cheap energy.
Oil has been the primary cheap energy, but burning something that takes thousands of years to make, is not sustainable. Even ignoring that fact that transferred all those carbon from deep underground to the atmosphere, and changing the climate of a couple degrees Celsius in a century, when it took 100,000 years get over the last glacial period that was just +5 degree Celsius. And now we just added 1-2 degree in likely less than a century. The last glacial period ended 15,000 years ago and allowed human settlement. So 5 degrees completely changed the geography of the world. Not sure what the next 5 degrees would do to our civilization.
All countries on earth need access to cheap and sustainable energy to support 8B humans. To feed them and protect them from the weather.
As a blunt reminder. If the gas production stops unexpectedly, big cities die. Like people have to leave the city or literally starve to death. A city like NYC, with 8M mouths to feed 3 times a day (3x~2,000 calories), if trucks, boats and even trains (diesel) are not moving, I doubt the city could survive a week. Cheap and accessible energy is paramount for our current local and global economy.