"We are not running out of oil, we are running out of environments"

posted 3 years ago

-my environmental science professor today while we were discussing peak oil and finite natural resources.

What are your guys’ thoughts on this?

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3 years ago

Hey I’m a geologist

We will never “run out” of oil. We will run out of economically viable oil to extract, or we will run out of time in which we exist to extract oil

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