…due to the appearance of shale gas. That said, at some point it must run out. But don’t panic:
a. By the time we start running out of oil for plastic we’ll probably have invented other, maybe better, materials to replace them, just as we’ve switched the materials we use in the past;
b. When oil actually becomes scarce, we can increase our plastic recycling, because by that…due to the appearance of shale gas. That said, at some point it must run out. But don’t panic:
a. By the time we start running out of oil for plastic we’ll probably have invented other, maybe better, materials to replace them, just as we’ve switched the materials we use in the past;
b. When oil actually becomes scarce, we can increase our plastic recycling, because by that point i…
we aren’t running out of carbon or nitrogen, so we can just grow more tree…aper is clearly fine — we aren’t running out of carbon or nitrogen, so we can just grow more trees. In fact growing more trees and burying them as paper is a way of sequestering carbon, which is good.
If we bury metals, we can just mine more aluminium, tin, or iron — we’re not close to running out…