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One hundred million carbon pollution thingies!

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[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 44 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why don't we just leave it there

[–] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Save it for the second industrial revolution that will need to happen after nearly everything gets wiped out.

[–] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In general the oil and coal being extracted today can't be reached without the huge inputs of already-established energy infrastructure and industrial machinery - all the stuff that could be reached with hand tools and a mule were cleaned out long ago. If the present industrial society goes down, the remaining fossil fuel reserves are out of human reach effectively forever. Any surviving human remnants will have biomass and sunlight to work with, and will mostly have their attention occupied by the task of wringing enough food to survive from a severely damaged ecosystem.

We would need global socialism very soon to pull off a planned, controlled simplification and localization of supply chains and dependencies and draw down to a less delicate economy that provides simple but dignified standards of living.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

It's ok, we can just tell god to push the reset button

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 36 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yum I can imagine the amount of different plastics we can make from that microplastics-cool

[–] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

uhhh plastic manufacturing is the most effective carbon sequestration program in the world, tankie

[–] SwitchyWitchyandBitchy@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I really hope some fungus or bacteria finds a way to break down plastics.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago

That fungus is gonna eat our lungs and organs too, because by then we'll be even more plastic than we are right now

[–] Grandpa_garbagio@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Roughly 2 months worth of US crude oil consumption for anyone curious

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Half of which goes to grilling burgers, the other half goes to trucks

[–] FoolishFool@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

And occasionally burger trucks like from Good Burger and the SpongeBob movie.

[–] MiraculousMM@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Grandpa_garbagio@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

Yeah it's uhh not good

[–] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

https://ogv.energy/news-item/oil-discovery-in-the-norwegian-sea-more-than-double-the-remaining-norne-oil-reserves

https://www.offshore-technology.com/news/equinor-oil-gas-discovery-norwegian-2/?cf-view

This is still 10x what Norway found...right? From the first link:

The well confirms a volume potential of 50-70 million recoverable barrels of oil. The discovery more than doubles the remaining oil reserves to be produced through the Norne field.

That's for the Norway one. The South China Sea one comes to 740 million barrels of oil (if you convert 1 hundred million metric tons to oil barrels)

I don't actually know what I'm doing but that's a 10x larger number

[–] Grandpa_garbagio@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

yeah we just use loads of oil. it's definitely a lot

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 29 points 8 months ago

Next headline:" USA increases renewables! We won't be dependent on Chinese oil"

That or south China sea needs some freedom.

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

... the country's STATE-OWNED oil giant

Lol what is the purpose of this?

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago

somehow cast doubt on the STATE-OWNED part

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago

I can hear the american helos already.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Operation "Chinese Freedom" any day now...

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago
[–] SnowySkyes@hexbear.net 22 points 8 months ago

Please let it sit there. Please.

[–] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 19 points 8 months ago

This is not good news

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago

The Dophins hate our freedoms.

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

Oh good, just what we need!

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago
[–] autism_2@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

what do they get out of announcing this