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delusional climate activists.
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(17-01-2023, 06:15 PM)C_T_Russell Wrote:
(17-01-2023, 06:07 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: We need oil to make plastics. Important plastics. Medical plastics, not coke bottles.  We need oil for far more important things than powering combustion engines.

That isn't delusional. It's common sense.
Exactly my point, although there is a push to shift away from plastics in some areas

It's delusional to say we need to stop drilling for oil for this very reason.
Ironically if we shift away from fuel burning cars, then the flammable hydrocarbons will be a useless byproduct unless it can be synsythised into other products likely plastics and polymers.
There is an increasing amount of plastics being manufactured from plants. Technology is also developing the use of alternative resources (to hydrocarbons) for combustion requirements, but the biggest challenge facing us is to stop burning stuff, and especially hydrocarbon products.

We've allowed hydrocarbon derived products to dominate our lifestyles over the last century or so and the same innovative skills that have led to that will also provide us with the next phase of human development. Changing from a fossil fueled society to an electronic one will be a substantial effort and will of course cost us in time, money and resources but the alternative is to continue down a path that will likely result in a planet that life as we know it cannot survive on. I don't think we really have any choice in the matter.


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delusional climate activists. - by C_T_Russell - 17-01-2023, 01:50 PM
RE: delusional climate activists. - by Praktica - 17-01-2023, 02:03 PM
RE: delusional climate activists. - by Lilith7 - 17-01-2023, 02:06 PM
RE: delusional climate activists. - by harm_less - 17-01-2023, 03:52 PM
RE: delusional climate activists. - by harm_less - 17-01-2023, 08:02 PM
RE: delusional climate activists. - by Olive - 17-01-2023, 06:21 PM
RE: delusional climate activists. - by Lilith7 - 17-01-2023, 06:21 PM
RE: delusional climate activists. - by Zurdo - 17-01-2023, 08:52 PM

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