Mandating social changes to achieve net zero emissions is a fool's game!

Before we accuse big oil for us not having a zero-emission society, we need to ask ourselves: "How dare WE in the wealthier countries continue to increase our demand for the products and fuels manufactured from crude oil, that makes OUR life more comfortable?"

Without a replacement for those petrochemical derivatives manufactured from crude oil, phasing out oil would phase out the Medical Industry, Militaries, Transportation, Communications, and the Electrical Power industries, none of which existed before the 1800's.

Sarcastically, or more realistically, these are a few boomerang impacts of a society less addicted to the fuels and products from crude oil:

• Without oil, a significant loss of billions of lives of the 8 billion on this planet from starvation, diseases, and weather-related fatalities because of shortages of food, medications, and products, and a reduction in transportation infrastructures, that are all based on the components made from fossil fuels!
• Without oil, we would drastically reduce the homeless population as all the tents and sleeping bags utilized by the homeless are all made from fossil fuels! The homeless will need to live like the cavemen in a non-materialistic society like that in the pre-1800's.
• Without oil, we would drastically reduce the unfunded pension liabilities associated with those that retire early from business or start collecting Social Security in their mid-60's, and collect pensions well into their 80's, as few people would live beyond their 40's!
• Without oil, a smaller number of colleges would be needed because there would be no need for doctors for hospitals, or engineers for infrastructure development, as those hospitals and various infrastructures are all based on the components made from fossil fuels!

Climate changes may impact millions, but without fossil fuels and the infrastructures and products we have today that did not exist before 1800's, we may lose BILLIONS from diseases, malnutrition, and weather-related deaths.

Eradicating the world of crude oil usage would ground the 20,000 commercial aircraft, and ground more than 50,000 military aircraftin the world and leave the 50,000 merchant shipstied up at docks and discontinue the military and space programs!

"Big oil" only exists because of the wealthier countries being addicted to the products and fuels that are manufactured from fossil fuels that makes OUR life more comfortable?"

Reducing the demand for the products and fuels manufactured from crude oil will end the fossil fuels era! Are we ready to revert to the zero emission society that existed before the 1800's?

Please share this information with your friends to encourage energy literacy conversations at the family dinner table.