Ars TechnicaUS public wants climate change dealt with, but doesn’t like the options
People want both action and to keep using fossil fuels.
Rick@arstechnica absolutely do NOT want to keep using fossil fuels, but there are two places where I still need to: aviation (which might be decarbonized someday), and my backyard fire pit. If everything else were decarbonized, would that still be too much?
Billy SmithAnd fertiliser.
40% of each barrel of crude is used for fertiliser, and food transport.
While the transport can be done with EV's, the chemical energy for the fertiliser couldn't be generated using renewable electricity until 2018:
The fall in price of solar panels, along with the increase in cost of fossil fuel, means that the fossil-fuel-extraction side of the industry is obsolete, as the hydrocarbons are now cheaper to make than to dig. :D
Padjo@JetForMe @arstechnica you’re burning fossil fuels in your fire pit?!
@Padjo natural gas