That's why I ask: debunk me harder, Daddy! because this schizo idea makes too much sense...
The whole peak oil thing rears its head every few years and it's the new topic of doom porn, until everyone moves on to something else. I was a doomer over it myself around the previous incarnation 2001-2005, and I researched it quite a bit. I made the same mistakes then that I think you are making now.
To repeat what's already been said, yeah the oil will run out one day, or the available fossil fuels that can be extracted. See the Hubbert Curve and the Hubbert Peak -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubbert_peak_theory
Of course there will come a point when it's all exhausted and it will cost more to extract than it is worth, but new reserves are being found all the time, plus new ways of extracting those fossil fuels via ever more cheaper and efficient means.
I don't pretend to understand it all and I've forgotten most of what I learned, but suffice it to say there is nothing to worry about in our lifetime or even our children's lifetime. Who knows, by then they made have achieved Nuclear Fusion (good luck with that). They might have even got their shit together and perfected nuclear via Thorium Reactors or wtf. And maybe we'll have Quantum Computers too with a big cherry on top.
It's not overly optimistic though to think that future generations will develop technology or discover new things to make the goal of cheap and clean and abundant energy a reality. Then they'll tax it just like everything else they do and create artificial scarcity to drive prices up even more.
Today we have technologies like fracking and shale extraction and while less than ideal there has been a major turnaround in the forecasts and projections of availabe oil since I started studying it post 2000. And just as America, IIRC has now become a net exporter of oil where as before it had to import a lot of its oil, there will be other countries that make new discoveries as well. Then there's the great rush for the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Please correct me if I'm wrong about American consumption, I'm going purely from memory so check these facts for yourself. The point still stands though.
There are probably vast untapped reserves as well below the tundra in Siberia, though it's debatable how easy that is to get out, but it only takes the find of one massive field to really make a massive difference. The Gawhar oil field in Saudi Arabia is the largest in the world, or one of the largest anyway.
en.wikipedia.org
That oil field alone represents a massive proportion of SA's output and reserves.
There's oil in Africa and there's oil under the ocean. And all the time there are oil men going out there looking for new fields to tap, creating new technology to find that oil, then extract it then process it.
But it's true, we are massively reliant on oil. We need it for agriculture for pesticides and antibiotics and for fertilizer. We need it for pharmaceuticals. Plastics. etc. etc. etc.
Plus there is Natural Gas as well which shouldn't be sniffed at (ho ho). There are massive reserves of that left as well. The Austrians have deep underground facilities to store it.
The Haidach gas reservoir in the state of Salzburg owns primary porosity and was found by Rohöl-Aufsuchungs Aktiengesellschaft (RAG) in 1997 at a depth of 1600 meters. It was converted into one of the largest underground gas storage facilities in Central Europe by WINGAS, RAG and Gazprom export.
The operations of the UGS started on the 1st of July 2007, with the usable working gas volume of 1,2 billion m3. Upon commissioning of Stage II of the UGS facility on the 1st of April 2011, its usable working gas volume totaled 2,64 billion m3. At the moment it is 2,9 bcm.
A few years ago they found nearly a thousand billion cubic meters of the stuff under the Med. sea - what will they find tomorrow?
Don't worry, if we really do start running out of the stuff, they will just reopen the coal mines, of which there is still a massive amount left in the ground. So much in fact that China is only too happy to keep digging it up and poluting the atmosphere with it just so we (in the West) can salve our consciences that we have gone 'green', all the while buying all the fucking tacky shit we don't need, and consooming it all as fast as we can throw it away, without even having used half of it in the first place, just to make us feel good and maintain the illusion of superiority we have over these fucking savages who pollute the planet.
So while there is poverty and while there are still peasants willing to risk their lives to get the stuff out of the ground so they can feed their families, I think we are safe for now. And don't think they wouldn't pollute the shit out of Antarctica as well. All those ""scientific experiments"" that can only be conducted in those places? Well, that may be the case, but they also make excellent sovereign outposts with flags hoisted high above. No one really own Antarctica, yet, but one day someone will get the upper hand and a war will be fought over it. Just like Denmark owns Greenland now, maybe one day Antarctica will belong to America or Russia or China.
If we really cared, and if we really valued our childrens' futures, we would plan and we would be prudent. And we would stop consuming all this fucking shit and needlessly polluting the planet. And the irony is the whole Climate Change thing along with the whole Green Environment thing is just a big fuck off scam by Globohomo, pushed by NGO's and bought off ""scientists"" and ""activists"" to guilt trip and tax everyone back to peasantry and forward in to neo-feudalism. Another big stick to beat us all with.
We obviously don't give a shit about the environment. People who own these companies only care about profit. The shareholders only care about profit. That is why when you buy a bag of crisps, once you flatten it out, it only contains maybe a third of what you would imagine. That means they could reduce the plastics in it by over 60 fucking percent and that is just for each unit. Multiply those savings over the scale they knock these things out. And that is for one product. It's the same with candy bars - you are lucky if there is 50 percent of the length in it. Every single fucking product plays this little trick, well, the ones that can get away with it, because muh profitz, not muh greenz.
I wonder what the true size of a packet of crisps would be (or a bar of candy) if you took what you saved on the plastics and put that back in to the product. It would be better for the environment. This is just one very small example.
As for clean renewable energy...
I don't know what the fuck is going on with all that actually. It makes little sense to me. They are phasing out the internal combustion engine that runs on fossil fuels and replacing it with electric cells. But that is only a storage medium; the energy to charge those cells still has to come from somewhere. And that is without all the safety aspects of Lithium not being the safest medium in the world, because when that goes bang, it really goes FUCKING BANG.
But rest assured there are finer minds than ours out there beavering away, working all this out for a better day for humanity.
Also be rest assured there are bigger bastards than we can imagine, working out how they are going to take it all away again and/or use it to control us further.
And this is what all this vaxx bullshit is about. It's about power and control.
There, see, I didn't go too far off topic at all, did I?
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