FACT: Over 30% of world's electricity comes from burning coal.
Humanity revolves around petrol; the burning of it is a global phenomenon. The status quo of today is interconnected with fossil fuel; it is everywhere, in everything. All institutions and individuals are dependent on it and use it. Petrol is everywhere, burned up and spilled into in the world's environment. Take a breath, have a sip -- it's in there. It is one of our greatest detractors and greatest liberators. With it we have fueled war and the means to explore. There is no getting away from it, whether one lives next to a processing facility or in wild seclusion.
Petrol is our liberator. Through its octane, people are enabled. People can drive thousands of miles in a few days or simply race cars in circles. People can fly around the world in hours. People can transport every whim and wish wherever by petrol-powered machines. Petrol has enabled and inspired architectural feats equivalent to the seven wonders of the ancient world.
Petrol is decayed carbon matter from the distant past buried under extreme pressures. The decaying mass is pressurized and, over time, creates carbon fuels. Coal is essentially oil that has not aged as long and liquefied. A less acceptable theory is that instead of being pressurized and decayed biomass, fossil-fuel is from much older, Earth forming, geological processes. Either way, petroleum is a nonrenewable resource. Practically all of the world's industry, farming and transportation are dependent upon this nonrenewable resource.
FACT: Many new chemicals and previously unknown substances came into existence as a result of petrol experimentation. Many petroleum products such as plastics could be replaced or manifested through other renewable, less-toxic resources. A short list of petroleum products includes: asphalt, antihistamines, aspirin, cosmetics, disposable diapers, linoleum, insecticides, fertilizers, pesticides, trash bags, bubble gum, shaving cream, crayons, plastics, synthetics, deodorant, dyes, shampoo, toothbrushes, toothpaste, paintbrushes, paint, stain, sun glasses, rubber cement, carpeting, preservatives, lotion, lip balm, balloons, toys, and on and on.
Petrol is our detractor, because it fuels destruction. Without petrol the ability to go to war would be diminished, the capacity to wage large-scale war would be eliminated, and often any reason to go to war in the first place would fail to materialize. Is it worth it? What time is it?
Petrol is a detractor because of the resulting pollution. The consequences of abundant and constant use of petrol are leading us to who knows where, but it doesn't appear to be a clean and accommodating place. Future generations will perhaps wonder at the splendor and intense consumption of this time period. People may wonder how we could have used such a dirty fuel at all, or perhaps how we could have used it all.
Many wars since WWI have been waged over petrol and all have been fueled with petrol. The Persian Gulf War in 1991 was absolutely about oil. Iraq invaded Kuwait to reclaim oil. Kuwait, once part of Iraq, was partitioned by the colonizing and monopolizing British Empire. Iraq claimed that Kuwait was siphoning oil from fields on their land. During that war a few hundred U.S.A. soldiers perished while tens of thousands of Iraqis, both combatants and innocents, were killed. It was a war for oil; oil is precious for it powers machinery of profit and control.
Oil enables the exploitation of people. It disrupts ecosystems and beings through its toxicities, as well as enabling war. The result of the global use of petrol is directly a polluted environment. Indirectly, the global use of petrol results in war and reinforces oligarchical collectivism.
Tea was not nearly as integral to living in 1773 as oil is today. In 1773, the commodity of tea and the surrounding institutional exploitations came to symbolize institutions treading on individuals. Today the symbolism is the same, only exponentially magnified in petrol. The oligarchical collectivism, the institutional integrations with petrol, are much more intricately intertwined and more significant in numbers than tea was.
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