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->...everyone in the world owes much of their present standard of living to advances made by chemists. Without the Haber-Bosch process for creating fertiliser from nitrogen in the air, half the world's population would not have enough to eat. All modern medicines, from aspirin to RNA vaccines, owe their discovery to chemistry.\\
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->...everyone in the world owes much of their present standard of living to advances made by chemists. Without the Haber-Bosch process for creating fertiliser from nitrogen in the air, half the world's population would not have enough to eat. All modern medicines, from aspirin to RNA vaccines, owe their discovery to \\
The lithium batteries that enable so many portable electronic devices – yep, chemistry. We could go on.\\
And indeed we will.
-->--'''Timothy Schmidt''', "[[https://theconversation.com/think-all-chemicals-are-bad-from-our-food-to-your-phone-modern-life-relies-on-them-227768 Think all chemicals are bad? From our food to your phone, modern life relies on them]]". ''The Conversation'' (April 29, 2024)
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It is entertaining to muse about what we might not have today if fossil fuels had never been available or utilized. Would we have computers or lasers? Would we have skyscrapers or photovoltaics? Would we have understood nuclear energy or fundamental physics that relied on high-energy experiments? Would we even have bicycles? It is, of course, impossible to say with any certainty. But since all of these things first emerged after fossil fuels took hold, and built upon each other in ways that at least had access to the benefits of fossil fuels, it is plausible that most of what we see around us in the developed world owes its existence to fossil fuels. In fact, one might say that it is a much tougher case to argue the counterfactual that we would still have comparable technology today had fossil fuels not burst onto the scene.
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It is entertaining to muse about what we might not have today if fossil fuels had never been available or utilized. Would we have computers or lasers? Would we have skyscrapers or photovoltaics? Would we have understood nuclear energy or fundamental physics that relied on high-energy experiments? Would we even have bicycles? It is, of course, impossible to say with any certainty. But since all of these things first emerged after fossil fuels took hold, and built upon each other in ways that at least had access to the benefits of fossil fuels, it is plausible that most of what we see around us in the developed world owes its existence to fossil fuels. In fact, one might say that it is a much tougher case to argue the counterfactual that we would still have comparable technology today had fossil fuels not burst onto the scene.\\
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For most people... the critical role fossil fuels played is easily overlooked. In so doing, we form a grotesquely warped view of who we are. Anything seems possible: we would appear to have transcended nature to be the masters of the planet. Lots of self-assigned rights and privileges follow. It is an age of human exceptionalism. The resulting narrative is highly appealing and stubbornly held even when cracks in the foundation are evident. Many fewer life-changing inventions have entered the scene in the last 60 years than in the 60 years prior to that. Such an inconvenient and obvious truth threatens deeply held beliefs and is quickly brushed aside as anything but obvious.
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For most people... the critical role fossil fuels played is easily overlooked. In so doing, we form a grotesquely warped view of who we are. Anything seems possible: we would appear to have transcended nature to be the masters of the planet. Lots of self-assigned rights and privileges follow. It is an age of human exceptionalism. The resulting narrative is highly appealing and stubbornly held even when cracks in the foundation are evident. Many fewer life-changing inventions have entered the scene in the last 60 years than in the 60 years prior to that. Such an inconvenient and obvious truth threatens deeply held beliefs and is quickly brushed aside as anything but obvious.
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-->--Thomas W. Murphy, "[[https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2024/02/inexhaustible-flows/ Inexhaustible Flows?]]". ''Do the Math'' (February 20, 2024)
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-->--Thomas W. Murphy, "[[https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2024/02/inexhaustible-flows/ Inexhaustible Flows?]]".edu/2024/02/unsustainable-goose-chases/ Unsustainable Goose Chases]]". ''Do the Math'' (February 20, 2024)
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-->--Thomas W. Murphy, "[[dothemath.ucsd.edu/2024/02/inexhaustible-flows/ Inexhaustible Flows?]]". ''Do the Math'' (February 20, 2024)
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-->--Thomas W. Murphy, "[[dothemath."[[https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2024/02/inexhaustible-flows/ Inexhaustible Flows?]]". ''Do the Math'' (February 20, 2024)
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-->--Vaclav Smil, "[[https://time.com/6175734/reliance-on-fossil-fuels/ The Modern World Can’t Exist Without These Four Ingredients. They All Require Fossil Fuels]]" ''Time'' (May 12, 2022)
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-->--Vaclav Smil, "[[https://time.com/6175734/reliance-on-fossil-fuels/ The Modern World Can’t Exist Without These Four Ingredients. They All Require Fossil Fuels]]" Fuels]]". ''Time'' (May 12, 2022)2022)
->Because so many elements of modern lifestyles are completely in the context of fossil fuels—how we feed people, how we manufacture cities and roads and consumer goods, how we extract materials from far-flung places and move them around the world, how we impose hegemony and “peace” through military might—we can’t surgically remove fossil fuels and pretend that the system would look anything like what actually developed.
-->--Thomas W. Murphy, "[[dothemath.ucsd.edu/2024/02/inexhaustible-flows/ Inexhaustible Flows?]]". ''Do the Math'' (February 20, 2024)
->Because so many elements of modern lifestyles are completely in the context of fossil fuels—how we feed people, how we manufacture cities and roads and consumer goods, how we extract materials from far-flung places and move them around the world, how we impose hegemony and “peace” through military might—we can’t surgically remove fossil fuels and pretend that the system would look anything like what actually developed.
-->--Thomas W. Murphy, "[[dothemath.ucsd.edu/2024/02/inexhaustible-flows/ Inexhaustible Flows?]]". ''Do the Math'' (February 20, 2024)
