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Oil bosses call phasing out fossil fuels a ‘fantasy’ – but an international agreement is plausible
(theconversation.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2024
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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?
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.