If you take all the energy buried deep in the earth and under the oceans via photosynthesis and animal metabolism, energy from the sun that was packed away over a span of 500 million years as coal, oil, and gas… and then burn through that fuel in the brief period of about 200 years, what will happen?
Think about it.
We’re igniting all of the stored energy from half a billion years of life activity in only two centuries. That’s a ratio of 2.5 million to one — which means we are using this energy two and half million times faster than it was created and stored.
@breadandcircuses The amount of solar energy reaching the earth each day exceeds all the fossil energy humans used. Most of it is re-radiated into space. But greenhouse gases reduce that loss.
@breadandcircuses Not to mention that the energy released has to actually go somewhere. All use of fossil or nuclear fuel warms the earth directly (an effect in addition to global warming).
@breadandcircuses not to mention, there’s not as much oxygen unless we have another Cyanobacteria explosion extinction which could take a couple million years give or take , maybe we can loop back to Dino’s and and ecosystem again, someone should leave a not to destroy the ecosystem next round….