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.
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.
I mean, yes, plastics are important and shit. They also take up 4% of global fossil fuel production
Plastics are not that important, we could have good lives without plastics.
Depends on your definition of a good life, I guess. Mine involves L5 colonies.
Mine involves not having microplastics in my organs.
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.
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.