▲ 2 ▼ Electrification Will Make The Diesel Crisis Worse (thehonestsorcerer.substack.com) submitted 1 month ago by eleitl@lemmy.zip to c/collapse@lemmy.zip 9 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 child) The "crisis" with diesel is we still burn it permalink fedilink source hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] eleitl@lemmy.zip [S] 2 points 1 month ago No tractors. No industrial agriculture. No heavy trucks. No mining, so no EVs or renewable energy infrastructure. No shipping. No airfreight. No paved streets. No water, no canalization. No modern medicine. And so on. End of modernity, in other words. So less than a billion people on the planet, long-term. Perhaps as low as 100 million. It will happen, eventually. But you don't want it to happen fast. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip [S] 2 points 1 month ago No tractors. No industrial agriculture. No heavy trucks. No mining, so no EVs or renewable energy infrastructure. No shipping. No airfreight. No paved streets. No water, no canalization. No modern medicine. And so on. End of modernity, in other words. So less than a billion people on the planet, long-term. Perhaps as low as 100 million. It will happen, eventually. But you don't want it to happen fast. permalink fedilink source parent