Correct, Johnny. We're not 'out' of fossil fuels and we never will be. Energy resources don't work that way. Johnny, your statements indicate a complete lack of understanding of this topic. For example, do you know precisely how much fossil energy is required for the complete life-cycle of a nuclear fission power plant? I do. Nuclear power plants produce ELECTRICITY. Bulldozers, cement factories, and uranium mines don't run on electricity. Your simplistic understanding of how energy resources work has led you to believe absurdities. The world doesn't work the way you think it works. Do a deep dive into the topic, learn a lot of Physical Science as it relates to energy resources, then see if you feel the same way. The process goes like this:
I'm not a scientist but I tend to side with Johnny truthseeker. Oil may or may not be finite but human ingenuity is definitely not finite.
Canada had a federal election in 2019. There was an enormous amount of energy (pun intended) put into keeping the climate hysteria going strong and thus cancelling Canadian oil and gas projects. The snow job that was done still couldn't quite hide the fact that there were competing interests that wanted Canadian oil/gas to stay in the ground rather than hit the market. For example, certain rich people heavily invested in railway stock didn't like pipelines competing for their business, more oil on the market meant lower prices so Canadian activist groups got lots of funding from those same rich people.
If finite oil truly was a threat to our infinite growth, shouldn't there be a herculean effort put forth to find good, viable alternatives with nuclear being the first stepping stone? That should be the worlds #1 priority right now. What I see is an herculean effort put forth to keep us ordinary folks away from energy use. Any kind of energy use.
To Bruce: the population will not grow infinitely. There are very credible people who've studied the subject, Jordan Peterson being one of them and state that we may get to 9 billion but it's downhill after that. These same people see the biggest problem not in an expanding global population but in falling birthrates (even pre covid) and a shrinking global population. They also state and it should be very obvious that the key to reducing the number of children a family has is prosperity, i.e., affluent people have less children than very poor people.
Yes and we reliably consume with increased efficiencyтАж surely that cannot go onto infinity but so far so good. In middle school one of my teachers declared we were all going to starve if the population kept growing at then pace тАж ha ha no sign of it although I can see regional drought is a wildcard but all hale desalination!
Correct, Johnny. We're not 'out' of fossil fuels and we never will be. Energy resources don't work that way. Johnny, your statements indicate a complete lack of understanding of this topic. For example, do you know precisely how much fossil energy is required for the complete life-cycle of a nuclear fission power plant? I do. Nuclear power plants produce ELECTRICITY. Bulldozers, cement factories, and uranium mines don't run on electricity. Your simplistic understanding of how energy resources work has led you to believe absurdities. The world doesn't work the way you think it works. Do a deep dive into the topic, learn a lot of Physical Science as it relates to energy resources, then see if you feel the same way. The process goes like this:
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I'm not a scientist but I tend to side with Johnny truthseeker. Oil may or may not be finite but human ingenuity is definitely not finite.
Canada had a federal election in 2019. There was an enormous amount of energy (pun intended) put into keeping the climate hysteria going strong and thus cancelling Canadian oil and gas projects. The snow job that was done still couldn't quite hide the fact that there were competing interests that wanted Canadian oil/gas to stay in the ground rather than hit the market. For example, certain rich people heavily invested in railway stock didn't like pipelines competing for their business, more oil on the market meant lower prices so Canadian activist groups got lots of funding from those same rich people.
If finite oil truly was a threat to our infinite growth, shouldn't there be a herculean effort put forth to find good, viable alternatives with nuclear being the first stepping stone? That should be the worlds #1 priority right now. What I see is an herculean effort put forth to keep us ordinary folks away from energy use. Any kind of energy use.
To Bruce: the population will not grow infinitely. There are very credible people who've studied the subject, Jordan Peterson being one of them and state that we may get to 9 billion but it's downhill after that. These same people see the biggest problem not in an expanding global population but in falling birthrates (even pre covid) and a shrinking global population. They also state and it should be very obvious that the key to reducing the number of children a family has is prosperity, i.e., affluent people have less children than very poor people.
Yes and we reliably consume with increased efficiencyтАж surely that cannot go onto infinity but so far so good. In middle school one of my teachers declared we were all going to starve if the population kept growing at then pace тАж ha ha no sign of it although I can see regional drought is a wildcard but all hale desalination!
Some for sure but droughts are a natural phenomenon too