-my environmental science professor today while we were discussing peak oil and finite natural resources.
What are your guys' thoughts on this?
Hey I’m a geologist
We will never “run out” of oil. We will run out of economically viable oil to extract, or we will run out of time in which we exist to extract oil
Estimates seem to think we have 45-100 years' worth of crude left, based on extrapolating from current consumption levels
So...I agree completely that by 2070 we will have either
a. Figured out something else, by which I mean redacted and aggressive pursuit of environmentally friendly power generation, manufacturing, and transit or
b. Been fucked completely raw by the rapidly approaching climatepocalypse
Based on the way predictions have been going for climate change I’m now expecting to hear we’re running out in 35 years
I mean we have reached peak oil but we will likely reach total ecocide long before we run out of energy to extract and use on our planet. Kinda like we have three bullets left in the revolver but only need one to off ourselves style metaphor.
It double posted so I have an extra comment here. Don't mind me :penguin-dance:
If asteroid mining ever actually took off in capitalist hellworld that'd only accelerate the environmental damage because there'd be that many more resources to turn into Funko Pops and even thinner phones. :agony-minion:
If we even come a fraction of the way of 'running out oil' then humanity will be extinct. Peak oil was always a canard.
If we burn all the oil climate apocalypse kills us all before that point. So kind of right
