Wasn't this in news cycles back in July? I feel like I'm going crazy here.
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Born too late to die in war over oil, born too early to die in war over oil, born just in time to die in war over oil.
Shhhh no talk only die
Trump's about to liberate Antarta... Aunt Tart... Antitartica... the place where the polar bears live!
Fun fact, though you may have known. Arctic basically means "of the bear" because of the northern position of Ursa Major (bear constellation, also the Big Dipper). Antarctic means "not of the bear". Because of how words work, it's also Arctic = "north" and Antarctic = "anti-north".
Also pretty fun coincidence that the northern one is the only one with actual bears.
This comment just made me shudder, it sounds too real
In before we deliberately start melting antarctic ice to more easily access oil deposits
Death to Oil
Add this to the list of "problems the wealthy make sure we don't solve."
Death ~~to~~ by Oil
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It's amazing how we always find ways to speedrun our downfall.
We? Bring them behind the shed in my back yard and 'we' won't have this problem.
I'd happily eat some long pig to reduce the overabundance of whiny bitches with money.
Now, see, this is what we are not allowed to talk about. But it leads to this.
Hey what is this we? Don't bring me into this. It's always the same few assholes at the top doing it all
Is it not incumbent upon the rest of society to stop a maniac when he threatens to burn everything down? Inaction in the face of evil is complicity. We all need to start organizing for the revolution.
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Any chance the capitalists will just leave it in the ground? No? I didn't think so.
Solar is moving so fast, no way this will be economically feasible to draw up. Leave it in the ground!!
True, but we will still need it for plastic, just look at temu et cetera
If we stop burning it for energy I think there will be plenty left for plastic without needing to dig new wells.
Cost more to recycle which is the problem. If it was all biodegradable from plants would be best.
The year is 2070. Common daily temps are between 35-45°C. Only 200k humans survive globally, and barely.
They still use fossil fuels to generate electricity...
A truce has been reached between the forces of AE-X11 Musk and the virtual consciousness of Jeff Bezos as they vow to unite against the tribal council of the former Russian Federation to secure the remaining oil reserves in the desert plains of the Antarctic continent
If there’s only 200K people left, everything is going to be fine … for them.
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The issue with fossile fuels or more generally oil dependency isn't the limited availability. It's that they're massive deposits of stored carbon and if we start burning them they get released to the atmosphere. With the oil deposits already known if we use them all, we'd have killed the planet long before the last drop of oil is used. We don't need any new deposits.
You think Russia cares?
Show me a single country capable of extracting this oil who cares. There isn’t one. This is a capitalism problem, not a Russia problem.
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FFS lets move on from trying to suck every last drop of oil out of the earth's crust.
https://www.worldometers.info/oil/
There are 1.65 trillion barrels of proven oil reserves in the world as of 2016.
So another extra 30% or so.
Yeah, we already have more than enough to ruin the world.
It's almost poetic. The oil got there because there was once vegetation on Antarctica, that decayed over the eons. Now the thirst for oil will lead to heating the planet enough to melt the ice again.
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For comparison, Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserve at 303 billion barrels.
Winter is coming.
Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserve
Is THAT why we have an aircraft carrier off the coast?
They've got oil and they're NOT sharing it with rich people?
Yes. Duh.
Is THAT why we have an aircraft carrier off the coast?
Yes.
I mean to be fair they just don't have the infrastructure to extract it anymore. Economic sanctions since the Obama years have mean that the equipment to extract crude has become hard to maintain.
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Who put the barrels there!!!
Just for context, the US uses around 7 billion barrels per year. Can keep the SUVs going for the better part of a century.
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Oh for fucks sake.
This title legit made me wanna not wake up tomorrow 😭
More to the point, what will the consequences be of that much carbon being repatriated into the atmosphere? I hear that Siberia has had some awfully hot, miserable summers recently. It’s likely not going to go over well with the climate problems Russia is having.
Hmmmm.
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What’s oil?
Hmm sounds like a good reason to have the ice all melt and speed up us dependency on it - USA 2026 probably
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