We're going to need a lot of solar panels
All that gas and oil was once a massive biological solar panel, covering much of the ocean, absorbing sunlight, storing it, reproducing, growing only to get subducted and stored for us, like a battery. For a billion years.<p>When I hear people talk about building solar panels to convert water and CO2 into methane gas for its explosive energy potential to meet our needs, mining pits in the ground all over the world, razing landscapes to steal their sunlight, as if they&#x27;re going to ever come close to the methane that&#x27;s already there, and that without doing more environmental damage than our current state of affairs comes close to, I wonder how delusional or dishonest you have to be to pitch an investor. And I&#x27;m fearful of the mentality and the utter destruction of the environment this absurdity will lead us to. They would have us pave the earth to save it.<p>If you&#x27;re worried about climate change, the only way stop it is to reduce the amount of energy consumed, the amount of plastic produced, the amount of ammonia made through the Haber Bosch process. This necessarily means killing, at a minimum, three quarters of the world&#x27;s human population, along with the livestock that are alive currently that will feed them. And then you&#x27;ve got to get past the unbelievably massive spike in carbon dioxide as all these carcasses decay, carbon dioxide that was once locked up in oil as well, since all these living organisms are made possible only by way of the fertilizer they were fed that was made from oil.<p>It&#x27;s not pretty, but that&#x27;s the only way to do it. Do you think we should do it?