I work in the oil and gas industries<br>We have known for a while this is not environmentally feasible, if not worse for the environment.<br>Carbon pollution, while carbon is a 'pollutant' is still just carbon, C02 can be eaten by plants. <br>Water is a green house gas... SO2 and NOx definitely need to be dealt with, but the societies keep pushing for Carbon reduction. <br>Carbon Capture Storage seems like an idea that may be feasible, but profitable is another thing.<br>Hydrogen cars, using hydrogen scraped off petroleum in a hydrocracker is one solution to constantly burning petrol in vehicles.<br>But, then you get the dangers of such a combustible substance.<br><br>Long term whatever they come up with, unless societies embrace something like Nuclear Fission/Fusion were fucked.<br>Fusion requires TONS of starting energy to reach near-fusion temps.<br>And Uranium is a finite material as well. <br>Uranium is interesting. It contains so much power it can be a bomb, or it can power a whole electric grid.<br>As a species, we have to fight each other. Power dominance is real, not completely necessary for survival, but for a species that wants to guide its own evolution it is fascinating.