"It’s never really been about believing man-made global warming exists. It’s about believing that climate change will do more harm than a bunch of technocrats with coercive power trying to mitigate it."http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/05/climate-change-alarmism-worlds-leading-cause-hot-gas/ …
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Replying to @Outsideness
Climate change is going to fuck shit up in a major way but I will forever be more concerned about running out of oil. If ever there was something to be truly concerned about, it's no more oil. And we will run out. 50-100 years easy.
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Replying to @quinnessential
Lots of alternatives to petroleum, they're just not strongly economically incentivized because oil is still so cheap. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @quinnessential
... Among the (vast) completely untapped resources: https://geology.com/articles/methane-hydrates/ …
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Replying to @Outsideness
When we start using 2 barrels of oil to extract 2 barrels of oil, it will be time to start considering some alternative fuel sources. Ideally sooner than that.
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Replying to @quinnessential
Price signals do an adequate job of telling people when it's time to move on.
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Replying to @Outsideness
Hopefully, there's enough time between that signal and however long it takes the entire world to completely change all of its petroleum-based infrastructures. lol.
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Replying to @quinnessential
Seems like it won't be so disruptive. Look how far solar (for e.g.) has come already, even in the absence of strong energy price incentives.
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Replying to @Outsideness @quinnessential
... Capitalism has done plenty of energy transitions before. No particular reason why this one should be especially difficult.
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how about Greer's point that any other energy sources will necessarily be less dense and therefore have a smaller EROEI than oil?
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Greer is always worth reading, but he tends to error in a consistent direction.
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Replying to @Outsideness @quinnessential
well, I do think that in principle concentrating energy isn't impossible (oil is a result of that), but empirically I have to concede that none of the proposed new sources have reached the energetic density of oil
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as I see it, it all turns on weather the remaining oil reserves will be able to sustain economic development up to the point where solar gets the trick done.
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