Peter Gleick

If the world was less dependent on oil and gas, the amount of shipping required (and the pollution and political costs associated with that dependence) would drop dramatically.

Also, things are definitely backed up on both sides of the straits of Hormuz today.

Mar 15 at 8:31pmWeb
Show threadOliver KurthMar 15

@petergleick About 40% of all shipping cargo is fossil fuels.

https://qz.com/2113243/forty-percent-of-all-shipping-cargo-consists-of-fossil-fuels

Forty percent of all shipping cargo consists of fossil fuels

Cargo ships schlep thousands of millions of tons of cargo around the world every year

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Show threadSu_GMar 15

@petergleick
Great maps! 🙏🏻
It does seem ridiculous not to harvest energy in place: from sun, wind, wave, whatever science comes up with next. Ridiculous, stupid, corrupt. 😐

#energy #harvestEnergyInPlace #renewableEnergy

Show threadSpaceMar 15
@petergleick Don't fixate on the fuels and lubricants. Think of the Indian farmers who will have no fertilizers this planting season. The shortages of pharmaceuticals, the lack of medical plastics (teeth, hip replacements etc), the industrial feedstocks, all of which are subsidized by the automotive industry's need for fuels and lubricants.