Mastodawn

A GENTLE REMINDER: we are trying to eliminate fossil fuels because using them kills us.

If fossil fuels were cheap (they're not) or reliable (they're SO NOT), it would still be urgent to get rid of them because their intended use destroys our life support systems.

Even if we were unaffected (we're VERY NOT), it'd still be incumbent on us not to kill future generations of people by burning completely avoidable 19th century compressed plant matter today.

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CAFCA47 17h ago

@ketan
Maybe so but have you reflected on the 6,000 or so items that are derived from petrochemicals in daily use, including the plastics on the device we are using for our posts?
Crude oil extraction serves many purposes other than transport.

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tribactam

@CAFCA47 @ketan The figure is about 13% of fossil fuels are used as feedstocks.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52434-y

This is far too precious to burn!

Unaddressed non-energy use in the chemical industry can undermine fossil fuels phase-out - Nature Communications

The chemical sector is both hard-to-abate and hard-to-defossilize. This study shows how limiting the availability of alternative carbon feedstocks impacts climate goals and efforts to phase out fossil fuels.

Nature