Not only do we need to find a way to live without fossil fuels. We also need to figure out life without plastics.
Hopefully it’s gonna be easier since we’ve used plastic for less than a hundred years. Fossil fuels have been used for more than two hundred years (not counting peat which is also bad and has been used for four thousand years).
Why are all these enviornmental problems popping up all at once, you might ask? It’s because we started using a capitalist market system where environmental effects are unaccounted for in transactions. Anyone who loves capitalism should push for regulation. Or we’ll have to replace the entire thing with some odonian Bookchin thing.
So get down with the green wave, capitalist pundits and thinktanks, and lay off this bull where you put oil shills on a fake EPA and DOE, or you’ll dig your own grave (and everyone else’s grave with it).