“Did you ever hear of a solar panel?” she recalls the Uber driver asking her and her friends.

BASED DRIVER

  • redthebaron [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    “Did you ever hear of a solar panel?” she recalls the Uber driver asking her and her friends.

    POPPING OFF AS I READ THIS ARTICLE HOLY SHIT

    *it is really hard to pity any of these fuckers when they say shit like

    But Mr. Zagurski, 23, said the oil and gas industry will bounce back just as it has many times over the last century despite popular notions that the pandemic would permanently reduce energy consuming habits. “Demand is going to come back,” he said. “Let’s be honest here, how many things in our daily lives have some kind of a petroleum-based product in them.”

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      I mean, yes, plastics are important and shit. They also take up 4% of global fossil fuel production

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        4 years ago

        Plastics are not that important, we could have good lives without plastics.

        • Mardoniush [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          Depends on your definition of a good life, I guess. Mine involves L5 colonies.

            • Mardoniush [she/her]
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              4 years ago

              That would be nice, yes, absolutely we don't need polyester clothing or microbeads or all the plastic junk that clutters modern homes, but that's a very small subset of plastics. And I'd like to not have to use lead piping.

              I'm including things like...say...non-plant based rubber, the essential high end composites we absolutely need for things like electronics and machinery, you know, CO2 scrubbers.

              Much of this can be gotten from plants, but climate change looks to lower global agricultural yields by at least 60%, so a very very small percentage of oil extraction will have to continue or we all die.

              • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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                4 years ago

                I'm with you that we will need a bit of the chemical technologies we've developed since the mid-20th century. But we'll only need a small fraction of what we produce/consume/demand today.