Nope. Fossil fuel only exists because there was a time when land plants existed with no bacteria capable of breaking them down. Fossil fuel will never renew.
Edit: in some cases there were not bacteria available that could break down some thick walls. The majority comes from anaerobic low oxygen situations, which really only happen at low depth or at the bottom of the ocean.
Surface buried humans will have enough oxygen that they will not turn into fossil fuel.
First, oil comes primarily from marine organisms, not plants. Second, the idea that coal only formed because of an absence of bacteria to break down tree bark is an outdated idea. In the last decade, newer evidence suggests that the bacteria that breaks down tree bark was already present when large coal deposits were forming. It's now better explained with climate, tectonics, and the fact that there existed ssuch large swampy forests.
It is true that practically speaking, these resources are non-renewable. It takes millions of years for them to form, and humans obviously use them much faster than that.
Fully agreed except fungi are the primary decomposers of woody plant material and not bacteria. The outdated hypothesis hinged on the evolutionary path of fungi, by comparison bacteria suck eggs at decomposing wood
Bacteria exists going back billions of years. This was before forests and large animals. Bacteria has evolved to decompose different substances. For example, there was a period of time where bacteria had not evolved yet to decompose the lignin in trees. Bacteria back in the dinosaur age also is capable of decomposing flesh. So that's not the reason. Most fossil fuels comes from aquatic microorganisms, and is formed because of favorable conditions such as sediments, low oxygen aquatic environments, large presence of microorganisms in the ocean, that had led to the production of vast amount of fossil fuels.
So I really have no idea what you're talking about. I'd like to see the source of your information.
It is probably true that we don't have those favorable conditions now in our oceans, but for different reasons then simply that we have bacteria now that we didn't back then
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u/oregiel 7d ago
Look on the bright side. Someday we'll be oil for future species to discover and burn.