[outworlder]

Of all the harmful effects of oil, asphalt does not make the top of the list. Sure, it covers up soil, nothing grows on it, it causes flooding by not allowing water to infiltrate the soil, and so on.

But the stuff was put there on purpose and it mostly... sits there. As designed.

What about water bottles? Many of those are made of plastic from oil. Not all are recycled. Or most things made of plastic for that matter.

What about fertilizer? We are using dead dinosaurs to fertilize our crops.

The list goes on.

I'll say this, though: should we reduce our dependence on oil as fuel, we will buy ourselves a lot of time to fix the other issues.