Your entire world structure is built on a finite resource. The infrastructure that uses this resource and everything that comes out of it are generating ecological consequences down the line. If your political ideology doesn't take this into account it's not a serious thing.
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“Peak oil” will not happen - mark my words. We already have such advances in fracking, (revolutionary) and natural gas as a super abundant alternative. Solar is becoming much more viable as well. We are so far from having any shortage of fossil fuels.
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It has happened already, and the EROEI on those new techniques has a much faster extraction bell curve and goes negative much faster than conventional Wells. Solar isn't a valid alternative because the enitre production and logistics chain for it is fossil powered.
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You have to beware anything the “environmental lobby” tells you. These people (Sierra Club, Greenpeace CBD, etc.) do very little for the environment. They oppose domestic energy projects in country’s with strong regulations, push development to unregulated countries.
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Fuck all those people #1 that's not where I get my information from and #2 I'd prefer much more radical solution
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We don’t need a radical solution because there isn’t a real problem. Fossil fuels are super abundant with current technology. Alternatives to fossil fuels are on the rise to, but they wouldn’t need to be to ensure the continuation of the current economic system.
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The continuation of the current system is itself a huge problem, even if there was no resource or pollution problem. Industrial technocapital itself IS liberalism, insulation from nature and selection pressure is systemic fragilization, enslavement, modernity.
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Technology and freedom are inversely related.
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Yes absolutely.
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Oil is technically not infinite, but it’s super abundant. I believe it’s effectively infinite, unless we have no technological innovation and runaway population growth for the next thousand years.
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According to the usgov Hirsh report peak conventional oil extraction was in 2005. Literally running out is bad but what will come first is the system shock when it becomes extremely cash intensive and economically negative to do so. Framing and shale / tar sands are a response.
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Real environmentalists should want more resource development and factories in the first world. The current environmental movement is and has been a sham.
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The answer is no industrial system. Have you read Kaczynski?
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Yes - his arguments against tech are sociological and psychological. Environmental concerns are second.
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Disregarding petroleum as a fuel source for transportation and energy production, most people forget or do not realize how much stuff is made from oil/oil is involved in production: paint, rubber, plastics, medicine, etc. After peak oil these secondary products will be the issue
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Again, these concerns are a product of the environmental movement. They don’t reflect present reality or history. Our planet is super abundant. We aren’t about to run short on oil to the point we have to worry about the price of plastic.
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The “environmental movement” has been a total failure. It’s simply exported factories, mines and logging to countries with weaker regulations. Thinking holistically you should support energy development in first world countries.
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Volcanic holocaust is better, new life rises from the ashes, just as there is a burst of new growth after a forest fire. Radiation would mess things up too much
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If Yellowstone erupted it would pretty much do the job
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