Jonathan Schofield@urlyman@mastodon.social
…But oil really hit its stride after WW2, and it occurs to me that the modern oil industry will have flared and sputtered in a span of about two human lifetimes.
Somewhere there’ll be someone who was born in 1901, when Spindletop in Texas began gushing, whose child born after WW2 will go on to live to the mid 21st C, despite all that’s ahead of us, just long enough to see the oil industry sputter out.
Jonathan Schofield@urlyman@mastodon.social
…Oil extraction at scale won’t sputter out because we’ll have run out of oil, but because the burning of unimaginable quantities of it will have made it impossible to extract affordably.
We’ll have created climatic conditions where it will often be too environmentally volatile to extract oil (or gas), so there will be intermittency. And that will have extraordinary cascading effects.
We’ll have chosen an #energyTransition, but without really choosing.
Get ready
#climateDiary
