China discovered its first deep-water, deep-reservoir oil field in the South China Sea, the country's state-owned oil giant China National Offshore Oil Corpo...
In general the oil and coal being extracted today can't be reached without the huge inputs of already-established energy infrastructure and industrial machinery - all the stuff that could be reached with hand tools and a mule were cleaned out long ago. If the present industrial society goes down, the remaining fossil fuel reserves are out of human reach effectively forever. Any surviving human remnants will have biomass and sunlight to work with, and will mostly have their attention occupied by the task of wringing enough food to survive from a severely damaged ecosystem.
We would need global socialism very soon to pull off a planned, controlled simplification and localization of supply chains and dependencies and draw down to a less delicate economy that provides simple but dignified standards of living.
Why don't we just leave it there
Save it for the second industrial revolution that will need to happen after nearly everything gets wiped out.
In general the oil and coal being extracted today can't be reached without the huge inputs of already-established energy infrastructure and industrial machinery - all the stuff that could be reached with hand tools and a mule were cleaned out long ago. If the present industrial society goes down, the remaining fossil fuel reserves are out of human reach effectively forever. Any surviving human remnants will have biomass and sunlight to work with, and will mostly have their attention occupied by the task of wringing enough food to survive from a severely damaged ecosystem.
We would need global socialism very soon to pull off a planned, controlled simplification and localization of supply chains and dependencies and draw down to a less delicate economy that provides simple but dignified standards of living.
It's ok, we can just tell god to push the reset button