[danans]

> That energy we'll one day need to feed ourselves, and heat our homes, and supply our medicines and materials? We're using it, right now, to make a shitload of disposable, toxic, plastic shit.

We should limit it's use to making medicines and materials instead of burning it to heat our homes and propel our cars.

Not only does the latter consume a lot more fossil fuels, it does so by dumping a lot more CO2 into the atmosphere. Plastics consume 14% of global petroleum production today [1].

We could ban all the "disposable, toxic plastic shit" tomorrow (and I agree that we should find ways to create a less disposable culture) and we would still have a huge CO2 problem caused by fossil fuel powered space heating, transportation and electricity production.

1. https://e360.yale.edu/features/the-plastics-pipeline-a-surge...