In a put up the opposite day I wrote: Large Oil’s solely curiosity at this level is sustaining its income and revenue stream indefinitely, However as time passes, this can be more and more troublesome, and would require feeding the general public extra propaganda.
A reader responded: Be trustworthy? Take your individual recommendation. Do you assume you’ll be able to farm with out nitrogen? The place do you assume 100% of nitrogen fertilizer comes from? Pure fuel. Reality is, we’ll all the time be depending on fossil fuels to some extent.
I very a lot doubt it. If we nonetheless have a civilization right here on the finish of this century, it is going to as a result of we efficiently decarbonized our transportation and vitality sectors with renewables and nuclear. We’d like an vitality coverage that transitions away from fossil fuels as rapidly and fully as possible.
