Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took some heat Wednesday for Canada's fossil fuel expansion at a time when the science is clear that fossil fuels must be phased out, underscoring a gulf between rhetoric and action.
I wouldn’t be surprised if half of everything you own includes some form of plastic. Phones, cars, appliances, even clothing is made from petroleum.There’s a LOT of things that could be replaced with non-petroleum products (like textiles) but there’s also some fields like medical equipment that we should be saving our reserves for.
If it was restricted to use in necessary cases such as sterile packaging of medical tools, it would last so long as to be effectively forever. Thousands, hundreds of thousands of years.
Oil is one of the greatest natural resources we have and we will always need oil, we just need to STOP BURNING IT FFS
So we should… drink it? I mean what else can you do with it?
I wouldn’t be surprised if half of everything you own includes some form of plastic. Phones, cars, appliances, even clothing is made from petroleum.There’s a LOT of things that could be replaced with non-petroleum products (like textiles) but there’s also some fields like medical equipment that we should be saving our reserves for.
Aspirin is made from oil, benzine is derived from petroleum.
As is paracetamol and ibuprofen
We won’t always need it. It’ll run out eventually so it has to be replaced at some point. Even if you ignore the climate change part.
If it was restricted to use in necessary cases such as sterile packaging of medical tools, it would last so long as to be effectively forever. Thousands, hundreds of thousands of years.
Yes medical equipment is the primary use that comes to mind for me.