• jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    Getting rid of oil would also require radical breakthroughs in solvents. I doubt oil is going anywhere even if ICEs and plastics stopped being used.

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      4 months ago

      The thing is, oil is an incredible resource with properties unlike any other, so we should stop fucking burning it

      If all we we use oil for is solvents and lubrication and such, it would probably be perfectly fine, and we would have enough for centuries.

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        4 months ago

        We should also stop using it for food packaging. I don’t need the thing that is covering my vegetables to last for hundreds of years.

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      4 months ago

      If we stopped making power and transportation from burning oil and gas that would be a huge improvement. It’s usage as a solevent or other applications is negligible.

      Get rid of the plastics on top of that and we might actually have a chance