Fossil fuels are destroying our environment and are not renewable. The only logical option here is to stop using them as soon as we possibly can. I understand that we can't just totally drop them overnight, but we can do many many things to ween ourselves off them, and make a smooth transition over to alternatives.
This really should be so simple for everyone to understand, but sadly it isn't. It's so simple that I'm not sure what else to say about it, so I'm going to focus on how "drill baby, drill" is one of the most terrifyingly ignorant things a person could say. It doesn't matter how much oil is still left in the world, or what country it's in, we can't keep using it. It will only lead to more disasters like the spill in the gulf, and the continued pollution of smog and greenhouse gases. What's worse, and this is huge: it will just reinforce our societies' dependence on oil, delaying our move away from it.
So I want to make something very clear: if we allow it to sneak up on us, the transition away from oil will be devastating to humanity. Almost everything that makes our society what it is can be traced back to a fossil fuel, and without them, things will fall apart in a terrible way. We are going to have to learn to live without oil, and the sooner we do, the less chaotic the switch will be.
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