Comment 110443

By mikeonthemountain (registered) | Posted March 23, 2015 at 19:34:13 in reply to Comment 110437

Tone and stereotyping aside, this part of your comment is spot-on:

put their efforts into alternatives discovery and that's how the hydrocarbons will be nullified

This is already well underway. Solar power is starting to become cheaper than fossil fuel. Divestment from fossil fuels and into renewables continues to accelerate. I've been watching this stuff for a while, and global shift to renewables is happening faster than I imagined possible. Awesome stuff.

So the amount of oil we are burning into the atmosphere can certainly start to decline in coming decades. From electricity generation, certainly.

And guess what? Like any resource or mineral, oil is still in the ground to use for appropriate applications. And the industry, like any, will scale back to demand, as the new industries boom.

So just because it will take a little longer to replace plastic with biodegradables, does not mean we should not start addressing what we can. And the "enviros", as you call people who care about our biosphere, are a source of pressure to make it happen faster.

Having a cell phone or computer does not disqualify one from advocating that we do not put all the oil that is under the ground, into our atmosphere and water.

Comment edited by mikeonthemountain on 2015-03-23 19:44:06

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