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SvennoJ said:

Ofcourse combining it with nuclear, hydro electric, wind, geothermal will greatly reduce this.

The problem is it's still cheaper to use what we have in place now. Replacing infrastructure is very expensive, but it will create a lot of jobs. At some point we'll have to move to a hydrogen fuel cell economy for all our transportation needs, cheap oil won't last forever and batteries just aren't efficient enough for the job. And we better start the transition before oil becomes very expensive.
Too bad humans don't react until it's too late.

And the climate? Yes ofcourse we've slowly been changing it. There didn't used to be billions of farm animals adding all these green house gasses to the air for example. We've drastically changed the landscape all over the earth, introduced new chemicals, changed the flow of rivers, literally moved mountains of earth etc etc.
The contents of the atmosphere has changed and we're definately helping. Nobody can really predict how far we can push the earth though. Probably pretty far, life will go on, oceans won't burn off, rain will still fall. Whether our lifestyle survives is another thing.

@bold. So true, as Stinky also mentioned. Better to start before crunch time.

Also, god lord, SvennoJ the albertan oil sands are horrible! Who approves these projects???