There’s too many people in this world to say “I’m just going to…”

  • fullsquare@awful.systems
    11·
    2 months ago

    who is “we”? as of now, there’s still oil being extracted and fertilizer being produced, just a bit less of it. if you live in a western country you don’t have to worry too much about it, except higher prices of food and everything that gets transported. if you’re a subsistence farmer in a place like bangladesh then you’re to some degree fucked

  • TheCriticalMember@aussie.zoneEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    I recommend checking out Nate Hagens Youtube channel “The Great Simplification.” He’s been working on this for years and his videos are brilliant. Here’s a few good ones I randomly picked as starting points:

    How might daily life feel in the next decades? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlkAeQ5xdeQ

    Protect the irreversible - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMfzVhTWMDM

    How to play 5D chess - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPctKcmnTvQ

    And his most recent one, 4 things we can’t afford to get wrong - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONtWQjRa0GY

    I know recommending videos sucks, who the hell has half an hour to watch a video suggested by an internet stranger? But this guy is the goods in my opinion, he’s worth a listen and I hope at least one person checks him out.

  • lime!@feddit.nu
    41·
    2 months ago

    make it from biogas? we can already synthesise basically every oil-based product from non-fossil means, it’s just more expensive.

  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 months ago

    This. We need to prepare for a world where we will be spending the bulk of our income on basic commodities that are currently still cheap.

  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Before it goes down to absolutely nothing, it will have declined for so long that you already know the answer.

    Which, unless you use gas and fertilizer directly, will be “shit’s getting more expensive” - some of which prohibitively so, and alternative products/solutions will be deployed.

    BTW, crops do grow without fertilizer. Which comes from many places btw. May I introduce Western Sahara, a humanitarian and alround ethical desaster not many people talk about.

    And gas? As in “used for heating or cooling or simply energy”? Same answer, basically.