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Oil will be fully depleted this century (probably earlier), Germany is playing with fire, they must be one the most egoist politicians I have ever seen..

cdot2 4y ago
People have been saying we're within a decade of running out of oil for about sixty years now
- glogla 4y ago
  Same with Uranium! The reason is simple but bit insidious - when there is enough "known reserves" of something, it is not economical to look for more. Once the amount of known reserves shrinks, it beings to be worth it and people start looking again. So it might always look like we have between two to five decades of oil or uranium or lithium or whatever. Realistically, we will end humanity by burning oil a lot sooner than we will run out of oil.
- WhereIsTheTruth 4y ago
  Yeah so screw future generations.. Earth population will double by 30 years, so oil consumption will more than double to accommodate with the need of even more energy than before Your perception of oil reserve is based on your needs today, rather than by projection Oil is not an infinite resource, you need to think tomorrow And that's without taking into account pollution, it'll more than double, earth size won't double, so what's gonna happen you think? We can do like germany with this example, or we focus on something future proof
kayodelycaon 4y ago
I think your experience with politicians is quite limited if Germany is the worst you’ve seen. Maybe you missed it but some country somewhere near Germany decided to start a war. ;)
- ihatepython 4y ago
  The US? Proxy war would be more accurate
  - kevinventullo 4y ago
    I think they were talking about Germany. To paraphrase Norm MacDonald, “I don’t know if you’re a history buff or not, but in the early part of the previous century…”
  - cynicalsecurity 4y ago
    No, Russia.
spankalee 4y ago
We need to leave most remaining oil in the ground if we're not going to race past 2C or even 4C warming.
ndsipa_pomu 4y ago
We're extremely unlikely to ever "run out" of oil (or any useful resource) as it just gets more expensive to retrieve as it gets rarer. Eventually, it'll just become so expensive that only billionaires would use it for something like transport when there's cheaper alternatives.

cdot2 4y ago

People have been saying we're within a decade of running out of oil for about sixty years now

glogla 4y ago
Same with Uranium! The reason is simple but bit insidious - when there is enough "known reserves" of something, it is not economical to look for more. Once the amount of known reserves shrinks, it beings to be worth it and people start looking again. So it might always look like we have between two to five decades of oil or uranium or lithium or whatever. Realistically, we will end humanity by burning oil a lot sooner than we will run out of oil.
WhereIsTheTruth 4y ago
Yeah so screw future generations.. Earth population will double by 30 years, so oil consumption will more than double to accommodate with the need of even more energy than before Your perception of oil reserve is based on your needs today, rather than by projection Oil is not an infinite resource, you need to think tomorrow And that's without taking into account pollution, it'll more than double, earth size won't double, so what's gonna happen you think? We can do like germany with this example, or we focus on something future proof

kayodelycaon 4y ago

I think your experience with politicians is quite limited if Germany is the worst you’ve seen. Maybe you missed it but some country somewhere near Germany decided to start a war. ;)

ihatepython 4y ago
The US? Proxy war would be more accurate
- kevinventullo 4y ago
  I think they were talking about Germany. To paraphrase Norm MacDonald, “I don’t know if you’re a history buff or not, but in the early part of the previous century…”
- cynicalsecurity 4y ago
  No, Russia.

spankalee 4y ago

We need to leave most remaining oil in the ground if we're not going to race past 2C or even 4C warming.

ndsipa_pomu 4y ago

We're extremely unlikely to ever "run out" of oil (or any useful resource) as it just gets more expensive to retrieve as it gets rarer. Eventually, it'll just become so expensive that only billionaires would use it for something like transport when there's cheaper alternatives.