@breadandcircuses This reads like the writing from several years ago, when oil depletion rather than climate change was the Big Scary Thing we all had to panic about. EROEI. It would cost more energy to get the oil out of the ground than the oil contained. Then fracking came along.
This whole resource depletion thing could be solved in a few years with nuclear power. We just have to get over the fear of it.
Then you start mining the garbage dumps into electric arc furnaces.