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RE: What will happen when we run out of fossil fuels?(featuring @infinitor as author)

in #life • 8 years ago (edited)

Interesting how human mankind only think of oil and natural gas as resources and actually think it is apocalypse.
But we don't think much of nature and biodiversity loss. Very saddening and disappointing.
https://steemit.com/nature/@coinbitgold/nature-has-no-voice-and-how-steemians-can-speak-for-them

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     8 years ago  

    Wow. Biodiversity loss is caused by us, humans, because of our activities. It is caused when we extract fossil fuels from the earth, for example. Do you not think that when fossil fuels are completely depleted, mankind will be on the verge of chaos? Don't you think that the high usage of coal is pollution the fucking air, making it slowly but steadily un-breathable? Aren't all these things AND more making us go hurtling towards an apocalypse or atleast some form of it?

    What are you talking about?

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       8 years ago (edited) 

      @infinitor, first, thanks for this article contribution to bring up this issue in environment. Unfortunately, sorry i don't think this is a good article. It does not have any citation, no stats, no data. In short, it looks a lot like childplay.

      My critique points below:

      • It will not be a resource war. It will be an economic war with Saudi Arabia deliberately lowering oil price to compete with shale gas in the united states.
      • Not sure if you know Coal is already being slowly phased out in many countries. Because what comes with it comes the costs of air treatment. And air treatment at power plants is mandatory by law under many countries. So i don't see it as a worry.
      • Human knowledge advancement will help us find new energy. As it has proven in your article too, solar, wind, etc. By the time when fossil fuels are depleted, there will be new source of energy
      • Agree that fossil fuel extraction leads to biodiversity loss in some cases but do remember that we can find new energy source BUT biodiversity loss is IRREVERSIBLE. NOTHING CAN BRING IT BACK. If amazon rainforest is cleared and gone, then it is clear and GONE.

      Last of all, I hope you can take the critique constructively and nothing more.

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