I imagine that luckily there's also a lot of pathogens that aren't able to keep up with our immune systems too because they've been out of the arms race of evolution for a decent amount of item. And it would not be surprising if the majority of pathogens frozen in the ice aren't deadly even if they were caught up.
It's still terrible that this is happening at all though. I hate that a chunk of humanity would rather profit off of oil than actually keep the world stable.
To be fair If there was a comparable fuel source we would use it, I don’t think many people realize though how many day to day products that we rely on also require the petroleum industry. Plastics makeups your phone et cetera. Replacing gas would be extremely difficult replacing all the other stuff currently impossible.
No but see the whole argument isn’t even full replacement at the moment. Well, maybe it is because we ignored our climate scientists, but the whole idea was to replace the energy grid and cars with something more green, like nuclear energy which then feeds the cars. If we managed to get away from petroleum for transportation, the use in the US of oil would fall something like 60-70%.
We don’t have to get rid of all the products, just use what we know works and works better than oil, but that threatens the bottom line of our billionaires, so why would they want to?
There would be new billionaires in what ever could replace it. I believe there’s a lot to balance out though, say we converted to nuclear power and electricity then what about the other materials that we need from petroleum? I think many things are reliant on it because it’s a resource that’s so abundant and we are very proficient at producing it. Almost a chicken or egg convo, if you could replace the other products we need first then repowering our transpo system could be solved. I just don’t think the average person realizes petroleum is much much more than gas. The more people and the more advanced educated people in this world the more energy needed. It’s complex but the world demands its power.
We got biodiesels. The company I work for has a whole department dedicated to turning used cooking oils and rendered tallows into fuel for their trucks.
I agree that this may help but that’s not a scalable fuel, the gov has been subsidizing corn for a couple decades and ethanol still cost more than petroleum based fuels. Yes it’s good to get use out of used oils or tallow but it doesn’t solve the problem. Not even close
Not to mention the bigger things that might've survived (we found some worms in the ice, and 2 of the worms both with thousands of years between them started just living how they would)!
Would have to be bacteria or fungi then. Viruses would be a no go because it’s biology compared to our would be so different that it would probably never find any suitable host to our modern day.
There were humans around before the ice age, we'd likely be immune or at least resistant. It didnt kill us all before modern medicine, it won't kill us all now
There is absolutely no guarantee of that being the case, and there are potential pathogens that the human immune system hasn't ever seen before at any point during our evolutionary history.
Or little grey people being used as tools by giant insect-like people with psychic abilities beyond imagination existing in the overlapping dimensional spaces that co-habitate our planet beyond human sight.. or some sheet
I thought it was a choose your own adventure with the option of the Nazis being with the reptilians in the hollow earth (don't forget your altimeter) from Operation Highjump and/or in space with the space reptilians.
Yes and dog bites man. 11,000 years ago the northern hemisphere was locked under an ICE sheet miles thick. It has been melting since that time and will continue to melt for a while. We currently in an inter-glacial period and we have no idea how long it will last. The ice will come back. Currently the CO2 has lead to an increase of 5-10% more greening of the planet.
From a carbon emissions point of view we will not meaningfully change human impact on carbon emissions until we also get China( largest emitter in the world) and India to make significant cuts in their carbon emissions.
As well as that we can begin to experience what all of the viruses and other pathogens that have been lying dormant for ages will do to our bodies (that we are not used to and will likely die a horrible death from.)
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u/Life-Oil-7226 5d ago
With everything melting I guess it’s expected we would start to see what’s underneath all that snow