Re:How an early oil industry study became key in climate law...
by paganel on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @05:55PM
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> I would say overall that oil and fossil fuels have done far more good for humanity than harm.
Without the oil and fossil fuels we wouldn't have had cheap and abundant fertilisers, that would have meant no Green Revolution, that means we wouldn't have been able (as a species, that is) to feed 8 billion people. Literally speaking hundreds of millions to billions of people wouldn't have been alive right now if it hadn't been for the industry of extracting hydrocarbons from underneath us.
It's crazy to see how reactionary a lot of people have become when it comes to this subject, even apocalyptic.
Without the oil and fossil fuels we wouldn't have had cheap and abundant fertilisers, that would have meant no Green Revolution, that means we wouldn't have been able (as a species, that is) to feed 8 billion people. Literally speaking hundreds of millions to billions of people wouldn't have been alive right now if it hadn't been for the industry of extracting hydrocarbons from underneath us.
It's crazy to see how reactionary a lot of people have become when it comes to this subject, even apocalyptic.