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Dubslack t1_j6uz7mt wrote

Reply to comment by DjImagin in ‘This is greenwashing’: Shell accused of overstating renewable energy spending by pipsdontsqueak

Renewables aren't making oil obsolete, oil is going to be obsolete regardless. We have 40-50 years left of known crude oil and it takes millions of years to make more.

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DjImagin t1_j6vph8g wrote

Oh I know, we are waiting to use every drop of a finite resource and only then will that break the addiction.

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LAYCH88 t1_j6w0u3c wrote

Unfortunately the 40-50 year estimate is based on economically viable fossil fuel reserves. See Fracking and how that changed the industry in the US when it became profitable. We won't see an end to fossil fuel use in our or our children's life time. We just hope it will decline to the point of irrelevance.

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