Oil bosses call phasing out fossil fuels a ‘fantasy’ – but an international agreement is plausible
Oil bosses call phasing out fossil fuels a ‘fantasy’ – but an international agreement is plausible
While some countries are more likely than others to sign an international agreement to phase out fossil fuels, measures to tackle fossil fuel demand by adding a higher carbon price are essential.
Even if climate change wasn't a problem, these guys should be aware that fossil fuels are a limited resource and won't last forever, right?
So when we do finally run out, what happens then? We just go back to sailing ships and horses?
They do not give a shit. They're not here to answer anything in good faith.
Wanna bet that fossil fuel have some undiscovered scientific secrets that we will miss because we used it all.
Same with all the rare life in the rainforests.
We are actively crippling the future of mankind, for wha? To go to work to exploiting corporations and to buy things made at the unapologetically unsustainable expensive of our planet.
Petrochemicals are a large component in organic chemistry and types of polymers. So preservation of those materials simply for retaining as a chemical reagent is important than just burning the material.
There are still centuries worth of coal if I'm not mistaken. Fossil fuels would go nowhere if there wasn't a need to shut them down.
Large scale sails could solve some problems the shipping industry has, IIRC. They're experimenting with Methanol (Maersk?) and Ammonia, because batteries and hydrogen apparently do not have required qualities for large scale shipping.
Coal is still a finite resource, even if there's centuries worth of it.
But I totally agree about sailing ships. For certain cargos that don't need super-fast shipping - grain, ores, etc. - sails make a ton of sense. The last windjammer stopped service in freaking 1957.
You know what, it might be better. Less pollution, slower life, reduced digital addiction. Could also push new tech development not linked to fossil fuel.
That said, there's also a possibility where electricity becomes limited (it will) and only rich douches can use it.
Mains-level electricity might become rare, but solar panels are so cheap, ubiquitous, and durable that we'll have them for a while.
Plus every gasoline car has an alternator capable of 12v that can be spun by anything from a Sterling engine to a small child turning it by hand. There's billions of them. Unless we all forget how cars work we'll have at least some electricity.
Oil bosses say that the world will suffer climate calamity because we won’t give up burning oil. Or is it that they are addicted to the money and can’t give it up?
Oil bosses can line up.
they think life without their billions is a nightmare, i believe that
There is a book called Limit, where a corporation build a space elevator to mine Helium 3 from the moon. They also build the required fusion reactors. That made all the oil corporations basicly collaps. By the end of the book, they are not the good guys.
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They send nukes up to the moon to destroy the elevator und the mining station with everybody on it. On earth a psychotic killer trys to keep the information under wraps.
Natural Gas is a "bridge fuel".
We all fucking bought into that.