• futatorius@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    The reason those products were adopted was because the raw materials were available chaply as by products of fossil-fuel production. We’ll have to substitute, and will still use some petroleum to produce feedstock for a while. But substitution, efficiency improvements and replacement are normal parts of a working economy. As fossil-fuel derivatives become more costly, we’ll ditch them.

    Shipping is a separate problem: the logistics and transport sector will be slower to decarbonize because of the long lifetimes of its capital goods.