That's the issue. The processes that packed that much energy up can't be replicated artificially, not in a human timeframe
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It's a spring we can't rewind once unwound, which is why depending on it means we're totally fucked when it's gone
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And that's why the global warming "side effect", too - to make a huge battery of that much biomass fundamentally changed the Earth
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To unwind that big of a spring means fundamentally changing the Earth back
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Oil is a miraculous energy source because HUGE AMOUNTS of the stuff of life and the energy it held was locked away and compressed
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I guess an analogy might be someone who gets rich by finding a giant pile of gold
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1) You can't spend that much gold without fucking up the economy around you permanently
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2) Your whole life will now be messed up bc there is no job in the world that will increase your net worth as fast as finding the gold did
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I mean we have to admit that renewables suck compared with finding oil. That's common sense in the end
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We're not going to get the windfall of just finding that much stored energy lying around again, the odds are astronomically against it
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And I think overoptimism about renewables may be harmful if it obscures the message that no matter what we have to slow consumption
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This is also a bleak message about "the Apocalypse" - our species might survive a major setback but the oil will still be burnt up
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That's our inheritance, we already spent most of it and if we blow ourselves back to the Stone Age it ain't coming back
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