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New North Sea oil and gas licences will send ‘wrecking ball’ through climate commitments
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023
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I'd like to take the time to remind everyone we only have like 47 years of known oil reserves anyway.
If we keep on at this rate, no one will want to live in the future of 47 years.
Oil will become prohibitively expensive at least a decade before reserves start running dry, so we’ll be driven to net zero before that anyway.
It is already an expensive fuel compared to renewables.
And it’ll only get more expensive. Eventually, not using renewables will be too expensive to ignore.